All our equipment in is our tool trailer. It arrives. But wait! Also frequently we set up for a breakfast for the participants. That arrives, too. You, as a newcomer to our crew, can help in either way.

The breakfast materials must be unloaded, carried to the kitchen or other serving area, coffee started, things plugged in, tables and chairs set up. Not a mystery to those who choose to help in this area.

A better mystery is what happens when we park and open the doors of our tool trailer! Here are the jobs to be done, more or less in order.

1. Plan the work area: where goes the trailer, and the various work stations. Note: these are the work stations...
   • Make the boat stations traffic free
   • Make the glue station as central as possible
   • Make the cleanup station as central as possible
   • Make the charging station reasonably accessible
   • Make the shared tool station reasonably accessible
2. Make sure everyone knows this plan
3. Clear the work area
4. Bring in the trailer, and open all doors back and side
5. Get unneeded vehicles out of the area
6. Set up canopies. They are on the floor of the trailer and in the way and must be the first removed items. If no canopies are needed, remove them and set them aside.
7. Set up two sawhorses per boat station.
8. Set up one tool table per boat station.
9. Run power cords to boat stations, and to battery charging station. Please do this in a way that each station has obvious outlets that are theirs. Each station also needs a 10' cord so they can run two tools out of one outlet. Provide those cords, too.
10. Put standard stuff at each boat station
    • One prescarfed 4x16 plywood
    • Pair of goggles, for power tool use
    • One book
    • One yardstick
    • One carpenters pencil
    • One saber saw
    • One drill driver with countersink/drive bits
    • Two pad sanders on second day, and 10' extension cord
    • One frame
    • Two stems
    • Container of 3/4 inch screws (about 300)
    • Container of 1-3/4 inch screws (about 10)
    • Put a 5 gallon trash can at each work station, too
11. Set up the glue station
    • One gallon of resin with pump in place
    • One quart of catalyzer with pump in place
    • One box of filler with spoon or wide flat stick
    • Ample supply of mixing cups, and mixing/spreading sticks
12. On the second day the glue station becomes a paint station
    • Bondo
    • Scraps of small plywood, for bondo pallets
    • Supply of putty knives
    • Gallon or two of Primer (or one quart per boat)
    • Tool to open paint cans
    • Supply of paint brushes
    • Supply of paint cups
13. Set up the power recharge station
    • Power strip
    • Multiple chargers as needed
    • Spare batteries, charge as needed
14. Set up the cleanup station
    • Running water (camping water container with spigot is satisfactory)
    • Nice to have a 5 gallon bucket to catch water, so we don't have a huge mud puddle
    • GOJO, get a gallon
    • Paper towels
    • A 40 gallon trash can, don't skimp on this
    • Put a 5 gallon trash can at each work station, too
15. Set up the shared tool station.
    These tools are shared by all stations, as they are needed for only a few moments each.
    • One router with 1/2 inch quarter round bit premounted, to round the rub rails.
    • Adequate supply of sandpaper
    • 1/2 inch spade bit, to drill for the painter.
    • Sharpening stones
16. Keep in the trailer tool bins so they don't get trashed
    • Spare countersink and driver bits (1 per boat recommended)
    • Spare 3/4" screws (50 per boat recommended)
    • Spare 1-3/4" screws (10 per boat recommended)
    • Spare sandpaper
    • Spare glue cups/sticks