PocketShip.net

Hi Gang,
I've started a new blog to track my build. I'm a bit tech challenged but it seems to be working.

http://pocketshipinthedesert.blogspot.c ... arage.html

I plan to pour lead tomorrow if I can get my hand unstuck from the centerboard trunk. It was chilly sleeping in the garage last night.

Jay

Jay, I was captivated by your blog since you're so close to where we live here in CA. I'm not sure how to 'follow' your blog so I'll just watch for updates. A nice start to a big project.

I found the design searching for a small boat project, and then the forum here. Still trying to decide if I'm willing to tackle another build, and what exactly my use would be. I've built a couple of wooden boats and restored a couple, but not since I moved from the NW to CA in '92. I had a Grady White Adventure (offshore cuddy, outboard runabout) for three years, sold it ealier last year and getting the boating itch again. Still trying to decide on power or sail, having owned several of both in my lifetime. I sold my 42' Alden Yawl when I left seattle, it was built in Oregon in 1958.

Are you open to visitors from time to time as you progress??? I would really like to see one of these boats up close. I'm in Orange County.

Where do you intend to use your finished boat?

I would probably source materials locally as well, there are a few sources for boat lumber here in so-Cal. In Seattle we used Flounder Bay Boat Lumber in Anacortes. All first-cabin stuff, I bought red and yellow cedar, and mahogany for trim when I built my Pete Culler skiff. Found a balk of spruce for spars up that way too. But this was about 25 years ago.

Hi Chris,
Here is my E-mail: [email protected] I'd be happy to have you come see my "boat". There is not much to show yet but momentum is building and I think the neighbors will soon realize that's a boat in the garage rather than a jumble of lumber (its' current state).

Jay

Chris, I'm located in orange county and have almost completed my pocketship. If you are going to build one I have enough Sitka Spruce left over to build the mast, your welcome to it if you have a truck to pick it up. You can leave a note on my blog "Jeffs pocketship progress" thanks Jeff