Dear James Wharram and Hanneke Boon, Why couldn't I just follow the plans? What made me need to tweak this and change that? Sure I've wasted a perfectly good life messing about in boats and dreaming of trips when I should have kept my nose clean instead of thinking of places to visit. Why? Oh I've had day sails on others cats but here I am headed out to the horizon on a boat I've never sailed on. 26 feet seemed so small when I first began after all it's only 7 feet longer than the biggest boat I've previously built from scratch. And to think that I believed I'd be sailing this summer. Here I've been all full of piss and vinegar. I've worked carefully and I've tried to stick to the plans. I thought I was thinking clearly all along. And now I'm noticing that my house is in the way between the boat yard and the sea. How do I get out of my backyard?


As I'm Canadian, I am using "hockey pucks" to locate the beams laterally. I was all go this moring and forgat to dryfit the two pucks that locate the main beam together. 1/2 inch off on the port hull. Luckily I could fix it.


Second time I don't make the same mistake - dry-fitted before I slather on the glue!!