Presented at
ToorCamp 2018,
June 22, 2018, 4 p.m.
(50 minutes)
My journey to build and sail a 12 foot live aboard sailboat from a pile of CNC cut plywood, a few gallons of epoxy and a lot of stress.
In August 2014, I lived in Port Townsend, WA with my 68yr old father and 18yr old sun. We turned a pile of CNC-cut plywood into a hull. Over the course of the next year and over 1000 hours later, I finished the boat in a garage. The talk will cover the construction and sailing techniques, including
- plywood eggshell style construction
- mixing and working with epoxy
- sanding epoxy
- filleting corners with epoxy
- more sanding of epoxy
- waterproofing plywood
- construction and materials selection to avoid corrosive salt water
- boat electrical wiring (complete with wiring diagram)
- sail rigging
- tent sewing
- learning to sail again
A friend of mine sailed a sister ship around Tierra del Fuego — some of the worst weather in the world — for 6 weeks.
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