[Third Wave]

When you didn't go fishing over the weekend and everybody else did. I'm drooling looking at all the pictures today of offshore meat hauls, and the boxes of trout and redfish.

Looks like everyone had a productive weekend. I did travel the 3 hours to the coast but didn't bring the boat because I was tasked with building a deck for my RV.

Figures...wind lays down to 5 kts and I'm sweating my *** off building a deck.

I did get a nice sunset stroll on the beach south of Port A with my wife and kiddos: Madelyn 6 and Collin 3. They had a ball...(they are used to the Rockport beach. You know the beach with no waves). The found some nice olive shells, saw a 50lb stingray, some jelly fish, calico crabs, surf fishermen throwing topwaters in the first gut catching super fat surf trout. I took some good photos of them playing in the water. So all was not lost. Good times don't always mean fishing times.

 

[wading_fool]

I know what you mean....I looked at that wind report and about died this weekend when I saw zero wind and I was stuck mowing the yard and doing honey do's....oh well if I would of been down there the wind would of blown anyway......lol

 

[REDKILR]

You know the worst part of my weekend,besides looking at the surf cam every 10 min.,I had already done my honey do's during the week.This was really a hard weekend for me.

 

[chicapesca]

Where are the pics man! For those of us that didn't go this weekend, we need those sunset and calm surf pics. LOL How did your deck turn out?

 

[Third Wave]

well...

I did get the deck built and stained. I decided to go with landscape timbers for the frame and supports and treated 3/4" plywood. Ended up with an 8X12 platform that keeps us up off the sand when we step out of the trailer.

The pics were taken with my 35mm camera and I haven't gotten them developed yet.

I'm hoping that for Father's day I get an nice 5+ megapixel dig cam with 10x optical zoom. Or something like that.
I told my wife what I wanted and she said....GO buy it yourself. No sense asking her to get it when I'm the one who knows what I want.

 

[surffan]

I did get the deck built and stained. I decided to go with landscape timbers for the frame and supports and treated 3/4" plywood. Ended up with an 8X12 platform that keeps us up off the sand when we step out of the trailer.

The pics were taken with my 35mm camera and I haven't gotten them developed yet.

I'm hoping that for Father's day I get an nice 5+ megapixel dig cam with 10x optical zoom. Or something like that.
I told my wife what I wanted and she said....GO buy it yourself. No sense asking her to get it when I'm the one who knows what I want.

Not to hijack the thread but what was approx. cost of deck???

 

[Third Wave]

It's not a pretty deck just functional

I paid $36.00 per sheet of treated 3/4" plywood (3)

4.25 per 8' landscape timber (10)

$3.50 for a 20' piece of rebar (guy cut it into 1' pieces for me for free)

$23.00 for a gallon of Olympus tinted deck sealer/stain

$10 for 12"x12" bricks to level the deck

And my labor which is very expensive.

Around $180.... Too expensive for what it is that's for sure.

But a deck built like most "DECKS" are was priced out at $600-$700 for an 8x12