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…
Once in a while, in this boat building adventure we get to do some small mad science experiments. Here we had a couple portholes and a bunch of fittings we wanted to rid of chrome and bring down to clear bronze. We did so using electrolysis. Electrolysis is basically using electrical…
With a not so enjoyable winter, building blocks in the shop turns out to be a great off season job. We prepare the rough ash to make the rest of the blanks for our single blocks. Noisy job, but sweet to work with wood after years of steel work. All our…
After much humming and hawing about building our own blocks we decided to go ahead and do it.We have the wood and it will make a good winter project. Whether we purchased or built the blocks we had to start by making a list of what we needed. I remember…
One more milestone! Today we picked up the two first sails for our boat… Holyshit… It’s becoming more and more real! I have a completed hull, it has an engine, a mast, now we have a couple sails. A godforsaken cold day seemed perfect to make the drive to Kingston,…