My garage is made of boat parts!

Before any serious work can start on the Blanchard, a very large scale game of musical chairs has to be played. The spot where the boat sits is on a gravel pad next to the garage, about 15 x 45 feet. Previously, the pad was where I kept the old boat, a 1962 Thompson Seacoaster (which is for sale!), and a dump run trailer, and 1.9 gajillion different and unique species of alien weeds and venomous snails, all guarded by the Centipede Army. Inside the garage, which contrary to popular belief is NOT a wormhole into a parallel universe where storage space is infinite, is where 2 scooters, 3 motorcycles, one small sailboat, unused gardening stuff, and 30 tons of rat crap are stored, guarded by the natural enemy of the centipede, the Big Creepy White Bodied Spider Brigade. So, to make space and finance the fixing of the Blanchard, I need to sell the Thompson. To sell it, I need to pretty it up and fix a few things, otherwise it's a "Needs TLC" deal, and I lose my shirt. To fix the Thompson during the upcoming long season of rain it needs to go in the garage. Did I mention that the garage is rotting from the inside out? It was very heavily built in 1928, framed with 4x4's and shiplap siding. It has a coffin-sized grease pit for working on your car, and for an added bonus, the drain in the floor of the pit leads, I assume, right into the Seattle storm drain system. (I don't care if it's mid afternoon on a sunny day, it's CREEPY AS HELL getting into what for all intents and purposes is an open grave in your garage. It doesn't help that it's also the headquarters of the CWBS Brigade)

So, the project has been to clean the garage, reframe the VERY rotten back wall, (seriously, if the T1-11 siding I installed a while back hadn't been caulked together, the wall, and at least half the roof would have collapsed by now. That's right, load bearing caulk) support the sagging rafters, and get a lot of junk out. During the reframing, we learned that a decent number of studs were in fact 4x4 tubes, with a thin veneer of wood surrounding a surprisingly large quantity of wood flour, apparently a byproduct of whatever has been eating the wood for the last 80 years. When you tap them with a hammer, or cut them with a Sawzall, the board collapses and a huge tan cloud of rot fungus jets right into your face, I assume causing absolutely no health risks whatsoever.

Also found among the rotten powder tubes are a 4x4 and a 2x6 made of what may be white oak, which I will need lots of when I replace the frames on the Blanchard. It may also be red oak, which to my understanding will not work for steam bent frames. Since white oak can take on a red hue over time, and red oak can bleach out to a light tan, just like white oak, I will need to do more research. There's also a lot of very old cedar, which could conceivably make it's way onto the hull when I start any planking repairs. (The shear plank looks to be toast.)

It would be pretty funny if I could gradually change all the unused lumber in the garage into boat parts. Ideally without introducing some exotic new rot spores into the boat.