Re: Keeping Boatbuilding Expectations In Check.
If you start a boat you have a one in ten chance of finishing it. If it is a "big boat" you have a 99% chance of ending your marriage... unless it was her idea. If she is the boat builder, he already lost his manhood long before the first supplies were ordered and is long gone. The project will take five times as much money and take five times as long as your most conservative estimate concerning time and money, the one where you multiplied your expected building time by a factor of three, "just to be safe". Oh, and you were really thrifty and resourceful about buying and even recycling material and equipment or it would have cost much more. If you were lucky, or perhaps astute, you chose a design that will bring as much satisfaction in use as the satisfaction of finally getting the boat to the point of launching. If not you should very much regret not buying a used boat, but you probably won't be that realistic. If you were realistic you wouldn't have started the boat in the first place. And you would not have gained all those skills, entered into that exclusive and very humble society of people who build boats. You would not be able to approach a group of men building a boat on a beach in some far off land and say, "I build a boat. Not a big boat like this. May I look at your boat." And be welcomed as a brother. You would not be able to look in your garage, yard, finger slip, mooring, or, best of all, secluded anchorage, and be joyful in the knowledge that THAT BOAT was built by you.
Pretty good summary of the WB article?
I don't expect I'll get a chance to read it. My free time is being spent, finally, many years after launching and just two summers of sailing, really finishing (and repairing) ROGUE ready to cruise as long and far as I care to go. The family ROGUE was designed to cruise for a couple of months at a time is long grown and gone, and the divorce long before that. My youngest and the boat grew up and launched together. She as a Mechanical Engineer, the boat building project not an insignificant inspiration for her career choice and superior skill. Now the intention is for myself, or preferably myself and a significant other, to cruise longer and more adventurously.
Eric
Pretty good summary of the WB article?
I don't expect I'll get a chance to read it. My free time is being spent, finally, many years after launching and just two summers of sailing, really finishing (and repairing) ROGUE ready to cruise as long and far as I care to go. The family ROGUE was designed to cruise for a couple of months at a time is long grown and gone, and the divorce long before that. My youngest and the boat grew up and launched together. She as a Mechanical Engineer, the boat building project not an insignificant inspiration for her career choice and superior skill. Now the intention is for myself, or preferably myself and a significant other, to cruise longer and more adventurously.
Eric
--- Inbolger@yahoogroups.com, "Rollin" <rollindalpiaz@...> wrote:
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> The March/April 2012 issue of WoodenBoat Magazine published on pages 26-31 an article by home boatbuilder Michael Higgins. I found it well written and very instructive. I recommend it to Bolger boat builders and hope to see a Group discussion of the information presented. The article is called "Managing the Dream - A guide to keeping boat building expectations in check".
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The March/April 2012 issue of WoodenBoat Magazine published on pages 26-31 an article by home boatbuilder Michael Higgins. I found it well written and very instructive. I recommend it to Bolger boat builders and hope to see a Group discussion of the information presented. The article is called "Managing the Dream - A guide to keeping boat building expectations in check".