I designed my Navigator design quite a few years back now, originally designed as a race trainer which would teach late teen aged sailers the basics of handling the small high performance keel boats that form Yachting New Zealands core training fleet without having to...

A new Sundowner

I’ve a nice long post all written out, pics taken, captions done, all that stuff but for some reason my lappy wont read the camera card. Grrr! So it will wait for a little while, and just to show that I’m not asleep on the job here, I’ve pulled up...

Happenings, progress and events to come.

Its been a week in which I did not achieve much, but felt as though I’d been working my butt off. Sick relative needs help, my mother at 90 needs a gentle watch kept on her, busy at my “ex’s “ house, some engineering work and two days downtime after the blood clinic....

SEI. Fitting the gunwales

SEI. Progress. Gunwale time. I found some short pieces of mahogany 2×4 in my collection, many years ago it had come out of a bank that was being refurbished. I’d spotted it in a dumpster on the footpath, managed to get some of the shorter pieces into my car and...