Thread: Jungfraufahrt of the 2nd Dutch GIS

Hmmm .. I guess three Goats or maybe more would fit in a 20ft container.

Glad you all know each other now too - nice to have overseas connections!

AND AB!!!! You had a Waarship ... very cool. I guess that is one of the things that moved me into wooden boats from the mainstream. When I was a teenager and a very keen sailor a house around the corner from home had a Waarship built in the front garden - it was on the downhill side of the street so you could look down at the detail as you walked (slowly) past.

I kept thinking how amazing to build a boat and followed all the processes carefully. Doesn't hurt that just about every stage of building one looks great - a very elegant little yacht.

I was still way to nervous to build my own boat at that time - didn't know how or where to start.

MIK

My first boat, only 5 short years ago, was a Nutshell Pram scaled down 5% to make a boat cradle for my son. I used epoxy and all the marine stuff required except for the birch ply and hardware store paint. It was a great lesson and really hooked me. REALLY hooked me. My life is kids and boats now and love building boats for people, especially myself! Our Goat project will be a nice venture, I'll get another personal boat to tote around and get on the water AND will hopefully generate some business with making masts and oars as well as get kids building good boats.

That was all a tangent I think. Gotta go.

Clint

We owned a Waarschip 600 SV, I think the most beutiful one. Of course I am biased in my opinion. But that doesnot mean I am not right.

I built it in 1973 together with my father and my girlfriend (I didnot know then that she would be my wife some day). Actually my father did most of the building. He built it in 6 weeks! Three weeks full time during his holidays (my mother approved) and three weeks of evenings and weekends. But my father is / was (he died three years ago) a very experienced carpenter, who had an education as a cabinetmaker.

We both loved the experience (and working together) and my father asked me sometimes, if there was another boat he could build, because he really enjoyed doing that. Unfortunately that did not happen, as I was to busy making money in stead of building boats together. Only afterwards you realise the real important mistakes you make

There is only one picture of the building. I will ask my mother for a copy.

Greetinhgs, Ab