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…
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,…
Today turned out to be an amazing day! A huge thanks to all that came to help us. We got the mast home and you definitely made this move easy. More so, feeling we have friends who will get out of there way to give us a hand with this…
Things are happening faster then I get to post. While we have been sandblasting and painting the hull we have also been spending the many rainy days working on the mast. For any one interested in the whole process check the “Builiding the mast and spars” page We sometimes get visits…
A little detail on whats going on The 54 feet mast is being laminated on planks no longer then 16 ft. To make up the length, the end of the planks are scarfed and joined together. Then final diameter is 11 inches at the greatest. We are building up the…
We had great visitors today, three men of long nautical experience: Andy the sail maker, Francis the naval architect and Maurice the marine museum curator.There is so much to learn from listening to stories, asking opinions and advice to those people who have been around the block. Over the years…
Exciting! A detailed rig and sail plan is coming together. We will be meeting our favorite sail-maker in the next few days and hopefully start getting the ball rolling for a full suit of canvas. Mark has been sourcing and reading up on different options regarding each element of the…
Not the most relaxed drive, 150 km with a big stick!The answer to the question is: it’s the bowsprit bowsprit of an old Thames barge, a rather well traveled stick. I brought it home from Kingston, where our sail maker had it sitting for some years but needed it moved….
