It has been over 4 months since my mate Drake and I were literally living the movie Castaway for 12 hours on Seashell Island in the Gulf of Mexico. Now our fingers and spirits ache to once again be battling the sea. We have decided to put ourselves to work building a new ship, one meant to battle the ocean so we can prove to all those who now consider us fools and awful sailors, that we can be on the sea and not face misfortunes. With the help of our friends, Ryan and Robert, we hope in 3 months to have an ocean going vessel worthy of an adventure, possibly even to the Keys and the Everglades.
Now it was obvious the last design was great for the bayous of the Hillsborough river, but not for the open sea. So we have to come up with a new concept that will be easy to build and big enough for 4 people comfortably.
So for lack of a tailor, we need a boat that can fit atop a van. This led us to the concept below, of the 3 part rowboat from the 50's.
So our next step is to take this idea and convert this boat design to work like this rowboat:
http://dinghy.pl/42m_skiff.htm
Within luck, we should start building Friday.
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