I had a wonderful Saturday with the godson and his family in Richmond. One of the things our godson's dad and I talked about was his recent build of a 15' sailboat. One of the tape and glue plans using plywood (he expressed that there was real difficulty finding AB exterior grade plywood) and a single sheet of clear fiberglass mat (painted after), this dagger-board, lateen rigged boat should be a treat for Yort and Peter. I think he's got the basics down and am looking forward to a report as soon as they can get the boat to water!
However, this renewed in my mind my long-standing desire to build a boat. The problem is that I live far from sailable waters while Yort lives just off Tampa Bay. Where would I ever sail? For certain I'm not moving. So my back-up plan was to build a row boat, like an Adirondack guide boat or Lake George pulling boat, that could be sailed but for which the primary means of propulsion was an ash breeze. Still, would I ever see the return on my investment? I think I'm going to have to ponder this a bit...
Sunday, July 06, 2008
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