Back from Vegas - Bulkhead in

After a busy work week and a couple of days in Vegas for the finals of American Ninja Warrior (I was scoping it out for my planned attempt to qualify next year),

Ninja!

I decided to fit the shiny new replacement bulkhead, so it was time for my trusty drill, clecos and air riveter for one last round of drilling and riveting. I used the damaged bulkhead as a pattern to drill the holes (after ensuring the holes were in the same place as the replacement bulkhead).

Using my trusty bow technique for the bulkhead, it slipped in easily with no scratching at all, and more importantly no creasing to the bulkhead:

Final panel fitted

 So, all is ready for the body to go on.


















Vegas really is a strange place. Where else can you see the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower?

The Statue of Liberty at dawn

The first round of the finals of ANW takes all night, so we walked back to the hotel as the sun was coming up, and I got a picture of the New York (?) skyline (in Nevada?).

New York, New York (?)

As we got to the hotel around 5:30, we saw the same people paying poker we had seen when we went  out around 1:00 - I wonder if they knew it was morning and time to go to work. At least the bar was still open.

Do NOT valet park your canoe at this hotel

We decided to drive straight back and stopped off at the Hoover Dam on the way - A great engineering achievement, but the water level was very low.

Who stole the water?