Water temps got down to 2 degrees at the local river mouth I frequent and that cold turned me off on surfing for a couple months. The Kuroshio current keeps the water pretty warm down south near Kochi. Is 15 degrees warm?Eric in Japan wrote: I am up in North Ibaraki. Water is cold, but the beaches are so beautiful. Yes, that was me making the wood board. Unfortunately, it has developed some major (1cm wide) cracks and I don't know if I can salvage it. Time will tell.
Good luck on the renovation, goathouse, treehouse, studio and workshop. Sounds great! (well, except the goat... not a big fan of goats anymore lol)
Too bad about the board. Waterproofing seems to me to be one of the unexpected difficult parts of making a wooden board. I hope you can salvage it. The next one will no doubt be better.
It sounds like there might be a good story for not liking goats "anymore". I've heard some good ones. The wife gets this wispy look in her eye when talking about the cute baby goat she saw and plans to bring home to eat all of the weeds.... if that goes as wrong as it possibly could, at least I'll get another good story out of it.