18 March 2013 - 03:32 PM
She told me from the first breath I took while telling her I wanted to build a cruising keel boat that I was insane.
She was right, but it's to late now 
. I have a good start on one that will be nice once all the effort is spent.
I grinded, fared and added two more keel lamination's today. A total of ten more hours of work and you can barely tell that I was there.
I think or believe that once the hull is turned and I start on the inside that it will become much easier to be motivated.
Sometimes I wish Graham would have told me to fly a kite when I asked him to design this boat for me. Then I set back and look at her lines and run my hand over her smooth hull and think how lucky I am that he did it for me. I'm truly thankful that he did, it's just when I look at the work ahead of me that is discouraging.
I know it will be a rare boat being a very well designed cat ketch 28 cruising design. I just have to figure out how to get through this rough bump in the road of all this fairing and sanding. Maybe I am being to picky with the way I'm trying to finish the hull, maybe not. I look at a lot of factory boats where the hull isn't perfect.
Charlie Jones gave me some great advice a while back. He told me he never paints the hull in high gloss, but then told me I could try and if I wasn't satisfied I could shoot the 2nd and third coat in a slightly flatter coat.
Maybe I should take some of my own advice that I gave Howard on his 26 and just build the thing and go sailing. 
01 March 2013 - 06:16 AM
My brother and wife used their SD 10n for the first time since they bought their trawler a few days ago. My brother was setting on the small back seat and his wife got in and flopped down on a cushion on the same side of the boat on the center seat, over they went. They managed to stay in the boat, but the water poured over the side and filled the whole boat. She had her back pack in the boat with phones and computer in it all those were done for.
When they boarded from their sail boat it was higher out of the water and it was more or less a straight down over the side boarding, in the trawler they were close to the water from the swim platform and just messed up.
Anyway it was their fault, but the up side is the dink, the outboard and they were still floating, full of water. So there is plenty of flotation in the 10n design.
Only wish I could have been there to see it all!!! 
He always gets a laugh out of my blunders also
Its been proven that you live longer if you laugh a lot, so we try to help each other out in that regard.
27 February 2013 - 06:03 PM
I have been pricing marine ply 
and it has doubled in price since I started my my Belhaven build in 2004 !!!! 
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