The Pains and Joys of Loopholes

   January 16th, 2012

    So, I am super stoked, and yet super frustrated at the design I've been working on all day. It actually got to the point I left and did homework I got so sick of working measurements and angles. But after about 2 hours I had the shell done and the I could use the library's books to fins out the best way to design the interior.

   The beauty of this ship is it will be two individual boats joined at the middle, and since legally two canoes tied together is not considered one boat as far as my research can tell, we legally wont have to register it. This way in case some cop wants to make a fuss, we have a watertight (heheh) excuse. In a pinch, we can even unbolt the boat and separate as two boats.

   My big problem now is the actual bolting of the two halves. I can't drill a hole below the waterline, (derp) so I have to be able to make the boat hold together along the rim of both sterns. To do this, I basicaly have one option;

Build one half and put it in the water. 

   There really is no other way that I am capable of to determine where the holes can be placed. My fear is that since the middle will be bolted, that makes the middle of the ship the weakest part, and in waves, the stress points would be a problem. I not being an engineer, fear this to be the rivet that sinks my Titanic. So, we'll remain researching that and cross that bridge when we come to it.

  Another issue is the complexity of this craft (and all sailboats in general) is rather daunting compared to the Katelyn (Pictured below). I'm having to figure out how to fit a mast and dagger-board in 

   We also finally came up with a name. Once we chose the ship to be like a Norse Knarr, we decided only a Norse name would do for our new adventure craft. So the name was born; our ship will be called Valdyr.

It means Sea Wolf