We just spent 2 weeks working on the second hull and I’m feeling good about the progress. The center line and inner stem all are all glassed and the bulkheads are nearly ready to be glassed in. Working on this hull has been a lot like rebuilding a puzzle that you’ve already completed. You already know where every thing goes and how it fits together. It’s just a matter of executing it properly. Being that it didn’t look any different than the other hull and the fact that I was putting in a lot of hours this trip, I never got around to any new pictures, but we’re going to go up again for a short trip and I’ll probably get some then. Since I have a hard time posting without pictures, I’ll include this one of me taken just before I returned to my non-boat building job…I like to call it the boat paying for job. You may wonder what it has to do with boat building, and the obvious feature is that I temporarily have much more facial hair (no time for shaving while at the shop), but if you look closely, you’ll see what this project is doing to me. The gray hairs have made their way from my scalp to my face. I knew going in that this was going to take years to complete and I’m still prepared for the huge amount of work ahead of me, but I’m pretty sure these short intense trips up north are removing years from my life. I guess I better get some more wheat grass growing, so I can bank a few more years up to even the score. I’ll make up the rest when I’m sitting on board under the stars instead of under an airport.
September 13, 2009 at 7:57 pm |
Hi Jeff, Avanti, the Merlin I built and recently launched, will sail our of Grand Marais, Michigan. My wife and I are planning a coastal cruise to Bayfield next July. I working on designing a collapsible trailer assembly this winter so I can do some trailering as well. Phil