Three hundred and seventeen calendar days after I started building and 215 days later in the shed, I have a boat. I think I spent on average 6 hours per day at it. Though these last few months have been intense, hour wise, earlier on there were plenty of two or three hour days so that tallys up to just shy of 1300 hours. I have a boat that is ready to get dismantled and hauled out of my backyard. It will float. It will sail. There is still plenty to do.
A Tiki 26 is a light boat, that is its scantlings don't make it something you crash around in or on especially when it is on land. That has been discovered as my daughter has been checking it out, jumping on the trampolines and climbing on the cabin hatches. I look forward to see what it feels like in the water. It will be better supported.
Tomorrow I build a ramp up the back deck to my neighbor's driveway then Friday it gets hauled out to the street and onto a trailer. A new chapter. Let the retrofit begin! Oh remember early on in this blog how I said I was a sailor not a boatbuilder, I've gotten into the builder mindset. I need to get into the sailor mindset again. Here in the Pacific Northwest, summer has abandoned us for cooler rainy un-August like weather. Hopefully that will improve so that the sailing doesn't have to start out in the rain.
Navigation center
Electrics in a box!
Washboard awning in place - better dry than .....
Looking aft in the port cabin.
A Tiki 26 is a light boat, that is its scantlings don't make it something you crash around in or on especially when it is on land. That has been discovered as my daughter has been checking it out, jumping on the trampolines and climbing on the cabin hatches. I look forward to see what it feels like in the water. It will be better supported.
Tomorrow I build a ramp up the back deck to my neighbor's driveway then Friday it gets hauled out to the street and onto a trailer. A new chapter. Let the retrofit begin! Oh remember early on in this blog how I said I was a sailor not a boatbuilder, I've gotten into the builder mindset. I need to get into the sailor mindset again. Here in the Pacific Northwest, summer has abandoned us for cooler rainy un-August like weather. Hopefully that will improve so that the sailing doesn't have to start out in the rain.
Navigation center
Electrics in a box!
Washboard awning in place - better dry than .....
Looking aft in the port cabin.
posted by tsunamichaser at 10:18 PM
1 Comments:
Congratulations Thomas! Fantastic achievement. Tsunamichaser looks beautiful and strong and I'm sure she will look after you and give you much pleasure. Good luck with the move to the water, I am envious of your reversion to sailor instead of builder and I will miss my daily fix of building blogs! But I look forward to gaining further inspiration by following your adventures
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