Ready!

After almost 10 year, almost exactly 800 hours of work - i.e. the building time estimated by the designers - the boat is ready for rigging. Due to limited tools and space, we spent two hours to assemble it but disassembling was much easier. It took a bit of curse words and sweat to convince the bolts to pass through akas, vaka and amas, but we did it.

It has been a nice ride but we spent much more time than originally foreseen, mostly because either Cinzia and I, in the meantime, were called to face more responsibilities with our respective jobs. Neverthless, as we said before, slow and steady wins the race. 

The next photos shows the milestone beer

and here's to you the proud builders.

Now we have to figure the best way to transport the boat to the beach, rig it and above all how to haul and lauch it: but that's another story.

Tiller and stick

One hour today to rivet the stick on the universal joint and to attach it to the tiller. We used two 4x25 mm aluminum rivets and two s/s 4 mm bolts and nuts.

 

 Total work time to date: 804 hours