Roof for the Cabin

We spent another weekend on the long road to getting a place to move into on Hornby Island. Uhhhhh... actually it's the long road to getting a place to take a crap. We're now 5 weekends into the project and while we have a nice structure that will provide a dry roof over our heads, we STILL have no working crapper!

The project at hand for this weekend was to install the skylight and put the roofing on the cabin. I'm happy to say that both those goals were achieved.

We left on Friday night. The only ferry reservation that we could get was for 9:25PM so it was pretty late when we rolled into Darrel's roadhouse in Parksville. The last ferry to Hornby is at 10PM on Fri nights so there was no way we were going to catch that. We're really lucky to have a place to stay at Darrel's on those weekends where the ferry connections don't work out so well.

Darrel had a pottery show in Courtney the next morning so everyone got up at 7AM and after a coffee we all went our separate ways. Once on Hornby we got to work. I rearranged some roof joists to fit the new skylight and Rachelle painted more roofing panels. By the end of the day, all the new panels that we brought up had been painted and I had finished the skylight box and was ready to install the roofing.


For dinner, Rachelle put together an amazing meal of fettuchini noodles with a prawn and tomato sauce and a bottle of white wine. We went for a short walk along the beach before the sun set and turned in early.


Sunday I installed the roofing. I'm sure that someone that knows what they're doing would laugh at the time that it took me to installed 10 sheets of metal roofing, but I was pretty stoked that I was able to do it AT ALL!

Since we couldn't get reservations for the return trip, we had to leave around noon to ensure that we got home at a reasonable hour. I had just enough time to trim some of the edges, put on some finishing touches and get stuff put away and organized for the next trip. As it turned out, the ferry waits weren't as bad as I was envisioning and we got home before dark.

This last shot is a classic Georgia Straight picture of the typical traffic that plies the waters. A huge floating hotel of a cruise liner and a working tug hauling wood chips share the Straight with a ferry on a very calm late summer evening.