W. took first place again today, in this year’s Pack 59 Pinewood Derby.  Last year, our first year in Scouts, I was astonished that W.’s car had done as well as it did; this year, I was expecting W.’s car would win.  He came up with a design many weeks ago, but we did not get around to start cutting out the pinewood block on the jigsaw until last weekend.  We worked on it a bit through early in the week with the Dremel tool, and cut away a little more with the jigsaw, until we had what we thought was a pretty aerodynamic design, with optimal center of mass ahead of the rear axle.  W. selected Midnight Blue paint, and I helped with adding tungsten weights (special order from WinDerby.com – highly recommended) and spraying up my clear glaze.  We even painted the wheel hubs, for a truly custom finish.

Next is the District PWD on March 13th – I’m not sure how we’ll do, with a much bigger field from all of the Packs in the District, but we’ll see how it goes.  Win or lose, it should be a fun time.