I love my Mx5, it's 24 years old now and I don't think I'll ever get rid of it!
Mossanimal, I just checked your profile and now I'm the jealous one. I regularly spend hours watching YouTube videos on forging. The Northmen channel is a favourite of mine, makes me want to forge knives, make log canoes and a wooden house!
The boat sounds great, I've always been interested in Lake Superior, probably because my dad was into folk music and Gordon Lightfoot's Edmund Fitzgerald was a regular song. My dad was bipolar too and he certainly had a few funny ideas over the years. I remember my mum's dismay when he left to go shopping and came back with a huge 1970's Toyota in bright yellow (this was around 1990).