2016 season update

It was busy year for sure.
After diagnosed cancer and DVT and proper (I hope) treatment I was able close bit over 500 hours of working on the boat.
Most of them went to fairing, sanding and priming.
Major part of exterior got 2 coats of epoxy primer.
Inside the boat I did work on few compartments to make it fair. Seems like I succeeded there.
Construction wise it was not that busy. Helm seat, cockpit roof (partly done), reinforcements for hardware... Somewhere there.
It was as well very long season in shed. Since the end of March till December 10th. One of the longest season in my boat-building carrier. Up to date it's 3500 hours of sweat, blood and coarse language at site :) Kidding :) I did enjoy this time.
BTW, the huge help comes from FlexiSander tools (http://www.flexisanderusa.com). Pricey but really effective.
Still able to close some task in my garage this winter (main bedroom floor panels, cockpit door, custom hatches).
Working on mast ideas. Seems like stayed rotating wing mast is the way to go. I hope it will be CF cored one. Will see.
Looking forward for the next year.
There are some pictures.

New season

New season been started already. We build new supports and jacked the boat.
Emma did spring cleanup in the shed, and started cleaning inside the boat.
The shed itself been damaged pretty severe last winter, floors started to sink. :(
The plan is to restore the floor at port side of the shed and put a new tarp.

Season update

It's been 6 years for me in this build already. I spent 3000 hours to get to this point.
My mom decided to come and inspect what causing me to delay it so badly :)
Here are some photo evidences of my progress (see my mom is on the pictures).
BTW, the cockpit is almost ready for primer, so I moved on starboard side and cabin roof.
But the weather is so crappy here so I called for a season at the beginning of November.

Rear seat/crossbeam

Mocking up helm station

Kitchen

Navigation station and cabinet

Dining area

Startboard hull looking forward

Cockpit

My son's berth

Escape hatch from son's cabin

Launch season

Last June I did launch my first catamaran. "Scrappy" was that.

Port view

Deck

Me and my boat

Happy boaters

Special edition homebrew. Launch occasion. 

Last season progress

It’s where I left her at last season.

“Scrappy”

My boat building process was on hold for entire winter ‘cause it’s too cold and humid in my shed.

So I decided to jump onto dinghy build as some of DIY catamaran builders do.

Another reason for that was a bunch of “mystery foam” I’ve got from my supplier, Fiberglass Supplies at Burlington, WA (thanks Matthew and Hose!).

It turned out to be a remains of some 50 footer kit from some boat manufacturer. And a foam itself was 1.5” Dyvinicel  H100 of some irregular shapes.

Which was an overkill for this project, but I’ve got it dirt cheap, so it worth to build a dinghy out of it.

It was obviously for me that this boat is gonna be a catamaran, the question was what design it will be.

At the end it turned out that it will be my own design again.

I played with some software to design a hull, got some overall dimensions.

And, here you are, I built a boat.

It’s not finished yet, unfortunately. I couldn’t sand it in my garage.

So I waited for some good weather to clean up the shell and make it ready for the final glassing.

There are some pictures of the building process.

Hatches are dry fitted for now.