Wow! I’m realizing it has been over a year since I updated anything on Mimi Jane’s website… its a little shameful really. Even though the website doesn’t show it, I can assure you that the work is on going and the progress really exciting. While the website has more content…
The FAQuestion One of those most frequently asked question is “How do you build that?” Silence…. “I mean… not how do you build a boat but how do you know how to go along to build a boat?” “How did you know how to build this boat?” “How do you…
Rewind back to April Oops… It appears that, while I have been mostly working on building the boats interior for the past few month, I have completely omitted to show the progress. After we finished making the wood blocks shells, way back in the spring (http://mimijane.ca/the-block-production-started), I then moved on…
Andrew Soper, in Kingston (Ontario) is our sailmaker, but also an amazing source of knowledge for all that regards our rigging.
Or, as Mark likes to call it, the Great Scott… Poop isnt very glamour but a serious piece of logistics for the live aboard boat. Our original plan for a holding tank was to have it integral to the hull of the boat. Over some second thoughts we decided that we…
We are reaching the end of the warmer season and getting the boat ready for an other winter. Aesthetic changes this summer were mostly details but improved the boats appearance from plain hull to looking closer to a completed vessel.
Finding a name This summer, Mark and I started the itch to get our boat officially named and registered. Naming a boat, more so a boat we built over many years of dedication, is not trivial, this name will be her identity. We need to feel attached to her name and…
Every year, we get together with Mark’s family for our annual Ovenden gathering. It is then that we celebrate everything needing to be celebrated; we make it the Ovenden’s Christmas weekend, as Marks parents are Florida snow birds. We enjoy good food, bubbles and time together. This year we had…
The work on the boat stopped during a long 3 month for me as I spent the entire summer caring for my grand-mother back in France. It is something we have to accept with a long term project, sometimes life interferes with other priorities. My absence was no reason for…
A few month back we received our dream windlass from http://www.deepblueengineering.co.uk/ ( Is there such thing as “dream windlass” ? – sure is for us! ) Playing around with our new “toy” (truly far from toy quality) we realized we should have ordered 2 handles with it. The boat is nowhere…
