First snow

We had the first snow of the season this week. After the weekend apparently it is supposed to get real cold so there may be more.

Cutting seat

Cut out the foot brace pieces and the rowing seat. Still do not have enough space in the basement so I had to take the workshop outside, a bit cold but at least above freezing.

Getting started

All done, next stop is glue (next week?)

Did not have time for much more since the kids found a dead fish on the beach and I was needed for the funeral.......

Time today: 30 min

Back to the boat

Back to doing some "building" again, even tough the pace will be slower this winter it is nice to focus a little on the boat again. Started to work on the loose pieces for rowing; the seat and the foot support.

The sketch

The templates

Drawn up and ready for cutting

The cutting will have to wait until next weekend as I am off on another trip tomorrow.

Time on Sunday: 1h

Göteborg

Spent the week in Gothenburg.

View of the river. The barque have been on the blog before.

Nothing new have happened with the boat, still too many boxes in the basement to start working on the masts. I hope to get going on the rowing seat etc next week.

Getting ready for winter

Prepped the boat for winter. I bought a new big tarp instead of the two old small crappy once. Quite a lot of water had leaked in the joint despite a 40 cm overlap.

Crew hard at work

So we cleaned the boat and got the new tarp on. Added some more wood to support the tarp (avoiding water puddles) and provide ventilation openings.

After a job well done!

Ended the day by carving the first pumpkin in my life!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!

Material costs

Thought I should look into the material costs today.

I ordered the frame kit from Fyne, something that shortened my building time but increased the cost. Another thing that drastically could have saved me some money was the Epoxy. I started out buying West Epoxy which is hard to find and very expensive in Poland, eventually I found a local manufacturer LaminoPol which had a very nice product at a third of the West price..... So had I gone local from the start I would have saved almost 300Euro!!!

So these where the main parts of the material cost:
Plywood: 300Euro (I bought too much as I did not need ply for the frames)
Frame kit: 710Euro
Solid wood: 660Euro (ready cut and planed to the right dimensions)
Epoxy: 680Euro (still have around 4 liters left which will be plenty for he remaining jobs)
Paint: 150Euro

So a grand total of: 2500Euro or about 3200USD


I am happy this was spread out over almost a whole year!

The vikings are coming

Went to a Viking fair organized by the local viking society, Alsnu. The weather was crap but the kids got to bake bread, shoot bow & arrow and listen to Aesir stories, I focused on the boats. I actually forgot to take pictures of anything else...