⛏️ Dried in
7 days after getting materials for the diver shack and we are officially dried in.
Got the floor done and insulated, exterior walls up with tyvek and sheeting. We cut in the rafters and sheeted the roof with plywood, tar paper and metal. Just got the windows and doors in yesterday along with sheeting the gable walls.
Have to give a big thanks to Emily's brother Paul for the effort here - as he really made it happen along with his buddy Luca. Sometimes it pays to be related to a skilled carpenter. He helped me come up with a design and materials list to build this thing efficiently. Saved us thousands of dollars on trusses and made the building much nicer by cutting in a vaulted ceiling. He even braved putting on the roof metal in the first snowstorm of the year. And did it all with a smile.
I'm glad there's no second story on this thing. The floor is blocked high off the ground so the ridge beam is about 15 feet up. When you've got frost and ice everywhere, the snow is falling, and the wind is blowing I personally don't want to be up higher, especially considering we have nothing that resembles real scaffolding.
Give me 25 feet under the sea instead of 25 feet in the air any day.
We still have a lot of work to do in the spring to make this thing livable. It needs bathroom walls, insulation, some kind of flooring and paint, electric, heat, plumbing, and appliances installed. Going to be tough having so many divers and builders here at once for pre-season. People will be crashing wherever they can squeeze a mattress.
But for now it's about time to shift gears. In a few days it'll be exactly 6 months since we first set foot in Nome to rebuild the Eroica's pontoons - our biggest preseason project ever - in the ice and snow. We're ending our season with another big building project in the ice and snow, and I for one couldn't be happier to let all these responsibilities go into hibernation.
It's time to put away our hammers and welders, dive masks and saws. And it's time break out the ice skates, skis and snowmachines.
Have a great weekend!
Alex
PS - gold prices are RIPPING this week.
We only have a limited quantity 2 Gram Eroica Paydirt, and the Paydirt Bundle (which is one bag of Eroica Paydirt and one bag of Diver Dirt Paydirt) left for sale until we restock.
All of our paydirt contains gold recovered from the Bering Sea by our team on the Eroica and the really fine gold has been screened out, so you only get nice chunky 30+ mesh gold flakes!
Don't Forget to use the code BSPD10 for 10% off ANYTHING in the shop, including gold, with your first purchase!
That's it for this week's newsletter. Drop me a line at Alex@BeringSeaPaydirt.com if there's anything you think we should cover.
Until next week!
Bering Sea Paydirt
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