this is the new lazarette hatch I buit, it was missing when I bought the boat., it's been covered with a piece of plywood since then.
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Finished Lazarette hatch

I still need to work on a latch, a bungee works for now.

before installation

fiberglass hatch base and seal

Skill saw converted to a table saw and hand drill drill press, some cuts are much safer and more accurate with a table saw.

Mystery Tree ID, the nut has three black seeds inside.-- the tree has Papery type bark -- alternate leaf stems

Mystery tree solved, Yesterday while at the fleamarket I was talking to the lady that grows and sells plants, she gave me my everglades tomato plant. She took me over to a mexican gal selling some plants that had a plant that we thought might be the same one. It turns out after google searching, I found out her plant only grows 6 feet tall and has some other things that make it not a match.

She told me it was chia, but it was hard to understand her spanish speaking, after looking up chia I figured she meant chaya. This led to cassava as a guess and then to the Euphorbiaceae (spurge) family, which after an hour of, Nope not this one searching, somehow led me to jatropha curcas. jatropha curcas

His mom planted it, there are many exotic plants 100 yards across the river at a house that was a friend of Thomas Edison's. They collected many exotics in search of rubber and light bulb material. -- The seeds make bio diesel, that has been used to fly 747 jets in Australia, It is native to Mexico grows in all conditions, even desert -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jatropha-_curcas -- http://www.haitianconsulate.org/articles/JATROPHACURCAS.pdf (french, but good ID pictures) Jatropha curcas can also treat crotch itch (Tinea cruris) caused by toenail fungus.

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