Boat Building 101

  After starts and stops, fixes and re-fixes, and the slow process of learning to sail this boat that we built, I can finally say that we ha...

The floating party was amazing, and fun, and a satisfying climax to this project, but it wasn't quite the end.  We had to actually sail ...

Time for this sailboat to have sails!  Thanks to Chuck Domby, who gave us an beautiful old triangular sail he had, and we measured it out to...

It turns out that when you think you're almost done building a sailboat, that you have to do all the things that actually make it a sail...

The Engineer (Jay) came up with a beautiful sliding hatch cover.  It's easy enough to move, and heavy-duty enough that it won't get ...

After leaving her in the water a few days to make sure she didn't sink, it was time to affix our spruce masterpiece of a mast and frame ...

We've been working all summer in preparation to launch the boat, and really, for the past 6 years, we've been preparing to put the b...