Sharing the garage with cars

[Richard Whitney CS#70]

Here is how I have managed to build my CS17 in a double garage at the same time as sharing it with the cars. The pulley system has worked well. With the boat getting closer to completion, the weight of pulling it up an down is becoming more of a chore.

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[Greg Luckett]

Try compound pulleys

[Roger Peterson]

Wow, Look at all that building room. I'm green with envy. My building area is my enclosed back porch (21'x 8') for CS17 #58. I am building on a castered cradle that I have to roll from side to side to do any work. I enter and exit the boat over the transom (with a ladder) to work on the inside.

I have attached a couple of double purchase block and tackle sets I got from Harbor Freight (I think each set was on sale for $4.00 American) to the roof of my covered porch so I can try to turn the boat over single handed. (My friends think I'm nuts to build a sailboat in north central Texas, home of the smoke belching PWC and 200 HP bass boat, and are not interested in lending a helping hand) The boat is really easy to raise and lower single handed, but I havn't tryed turning it over yet. I'm waiting for a short spurt of warm weather to install the centerboard trunk before "the great turning adventure.

Your Boat is looking really nice. Thanks for showing us a picture.

I'll post a few pic's of mine when I finish out the roll in the camera and get them put on a disk. I still don't own a digital camera (or a computer for that matter, I use Web TV for surfing the web and e-mail)

Roger

[Terry Dunn]

It never ceases to amaze me how creative people are when they are determined to build a boat. I built my CS20 in a 20' 7" by 19' garage. Most of the time there was a car in the garage with the boat. Hmmn. Perhaps if I had put a pulley system in diagonally, I could have got both cars in the garage. The kayak and car top carrier suspended in the garage may have gotten in the way.

Now I fuss becuase the boat won't fit in the garage on the trailer. Life can be hard.

I might try the block and tackle sets from Harbor Freight. An easy way to get the boat off the trailer to do some work would be nice.

[Tom Lathrop]

Rule number one: As soon as you start to build a boat in a garage, it becomes a boatshop and the car stays outside. We have owned several "garages" and the only time a car has been alowed inside is when it needed to be worked on.

Now, if you are building the boat in the dining room, some concession may have to be made.

[Roger Peterson]

One quick note about the block and tackle sets from Harbor Freight, The "rope" included should not be used. It's looks like it might be made out of recycled milk cartons or plastic trash bags. It's very slippery and hard to hold on to and will not hold a knot.

Roger