Diary on the construction of a Seaclipper 20, a plywood trimaran designed by Jim Brown and John Marples. Our boat's Sail No. is 50. The boat has been named GEODETICA and was launched on september 28th, 2024.
Two hours of work today. First we installed the bow eye, after a non trivial modification to lenghten the thread, because it was initially too short (or the stem was too thick...)
The problem was that poor Cinzia had to enter the bow locker and crawl up to the stem, where there is no elbow room at all... anyway, she did it with the help of a ratchet key and various accessories ! Kudos to Cinzia!
Then we fixed the forestay attachment
One hour today to give the second and last coat of paint to the vaka deck: time for the milestone beer! This completes the painting phase.
Now we have to install the portholes and hatches, install the false transom and rudder, build and install the tiller, dry mount the boat and then, if all goes well, bring it to the beach to install everything else, hoping that Cinzia ever allows moving the boat at all. I don't want to be around by the time the boat will get the first scratch!
The projected building time (800 hours) looks dead on the spot! Kudos to the designers. To be honest, I do think that with a few more power tools and, above all, more elbow room, we could have cut this time significantly. Anyway, it's been a nice ride up to now. Looking forward to launching!
Total work time to date: 770 hours
Two hours today. We first gave the vaka deck a light scrub with 240 grit, and then gave the first coat of paint (the same paint that we used for the ama decks and the akas).
Tomorrow we will give the second and last coat.
Total work time to date: 769 hours
As anticipated, we went to Ginosa, a small town in Puglia, to buy a used trailer for the boat. The size is almost identical to the trailer specified in the plans. In Italy it's not possible to self build a trailer...
One hour today in which we gave the second and last coat to the cockpit.
Total work time to date: 767 hours
