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now it is on a journey to the sea

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Tulsa man taking boat to water after building it for 10 years in his yard

TULSA, Okla. (KTUL) – After a decade building a boat in his Tulsa yard, Doug Jackson is taking his creation to the water. The SV Seeker is headed Thursday to the Port of Catoosa, with the aim of eventually making it to the sea. Jackson says it’s all been about the journey – the process of...
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Speaking of which, does anyone have updates on.... can’t remember his name... Rick? Who was building a trawler... his blog hasn’t been updated since the fall of 2018
 
Good to see him going I was worried seeing no update on his blog. Must have been 10 years because I think he started around the same time I started my classic gaff rigged sloop
Sucks being able to work on it just 4 months a year.
 
So the people mentioned that are building boats are making them out of wood? Hard to make a mold for a fiberglass boat in your back yard. I remember many decades ago Glen L sold plans for wooden boats.

Now I did see someone selling the mold to make a Boston Whaler. Maybe an old mold no longer used at the factory. But I would think it would take a few tries to get even a basic mastery of working with fiberglass.
 
In theory you could make a mold from an existing hull but for one offs they are better options.

when I build my little sailboat a few years ago, I first built the frames, stringers and deck (foam cores fiberglass), assembled that and then built the hull on the skeleton. While I used western red cedar above the water line for aesthetic reasons, I used foam core glass below water line.

 
Personally, I would rather be boating than building a boat. Of course, some people may feel differently.

Ten years is an awfully long time to invest in building a boat and I know many people have set out to build or extensively rebuild a boat and never finished.
 
Several years ago, after seeing this 50'+ trawler under construction for at least a decade, curiosity got the best of us so we stop in one day while there was someone working on it. Turned out the fella was a doctor and had been working on the boat for 30+ years. Very nice guy who gave us a full tour and spent a lot of time explaining details of the build, etc. He did almost everything himself but did have a helper on some things along the way. He had a large workshop built on the property with full woodworking equipment, etc. Everything about the boat was absolutely beautiful. He, and his wife, launched it a couple years later and kept it in a local marina for 2-3 years then they set of cruising.
 
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