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What makes a person want to build a boat? I don't mean a dinghy or even a day sailor. I mean a real cruising boat. It is certainly not money. It would be easier and cheaper and quicker to buy an older production boat and fix it up. It isn't the idea that you can't find anything you like. There are more choices in buying a modern production sail boats than there are in buying an automobile but few people have an overwhelming desire to build a car. Some people combine these two reasons and almost convince themselves. But the only justifiable reason for building your own boat is the overwhelming desire to create something.
Noah had instructions from God, the threat of a major disaster and help from his sons. God didn't have much opinion on the subject for me, survival was not a problem and my teenage son had discovered girls, so I was on my own.
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 This is me on a Beneteau 50 in the BVI last Easter. (I sure hope Dennis Conner never goes on a diet.)
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Construction began on May 5, 1997 with the lamination of the stem. The pictures on this site are current as of February 2000. As of June 2000, the interior structure is complete and the bulkheads are in. We are now working on the deck which is going a lot slower than expected.. This is a five year project and thus far, I am just about six months behind schedule.
This is my way of sharing the experience. I will be adding to this site periodically. Come back and visit again. Be patient though. I'm trying to spend my time on the boat and not on the Web. When you see it has changed you will know that it is to cold or to hot to work on the boat or I am temporarily out of money for more materials. And don't expect it to be real jazzy. I have neither the time or the talent for that. This is just information, not art.
Traditionalist will be disappointed. This is a very modern, canoe hull, fin keel, spade rudder boat built using high technology boat building methods in wood.
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