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...

Time accounting III

The boat is in Sweden and I am busy with work and unpacking boxes. So I thought it may be time to look into how I have spent my time, by looking back at the milestones.

Start of build: 29/10-2011
Strongback built: total time 15h
Frames done: 10/12 total time 31h (I had the frame kit so if someone is building from scratch you should probably add another 30h)
Keel (bottom) laid: 17/12 total time 50.5h
Frames installed: 17/1-2012 total time 82.5h
Stringers installed: 29/1 total time 113h
Planking done: 22/3 otal time 209.5h
Bottom painted and right way up: 29/6 total time 297h
Decks in place: 7/9 total time 371.5h
Hull done (almost): 12/9 total time 387h

What is left to be done is some more painting, that I hope to have done before it gets to cold, building the masts and oars. So my initial estimate of 400h is not that far of.

Building will slow down for winter now (I doubt there will be time to launch her before it gets too cold)  so the update frequency of the blog will also slow down. I will post when something happens and there will also be a a few posts about cost, tools, the odd nice boat I run across etc too keep the blog going until launch day.

By the way I just past 8000 page views the other day!!

Crew inspection

Today my rowing crew (the kids) got their first chance to inspect their vessel. Happily they seemed pleased and are already planning the first camping trip.....

Waiting for the ferry

So far so good, only had to stop once to tighten a loose strap. Need to by a new tarp this one is crap (but cheap crap) too thin and flaps about all the time.

Left overs

This is what is left over of the ply and wood I bought (except the wood for masts and oars that I bring with me to Sweden)