We are writing this post from Tokyo, Japan. The boat is still in St-Paul but we are at
the other end of the world. We still
received some good news a few weeks back:
The centerboard, which JP took to his shop back in October to fill his
long winter nights, is done. Took quite
a bit more work than originally expected but it is now repaired and painted,
ready for our return in 2015.
In parallel to this, before leaving home back in January, we
bought a 1984 Montgomery 17, which is going to be baptized Budwig, just like
his predecessor. For those who have
followed this blog since the beginning, you’ll remember that we had in the past
a 1974 vintage of the same model, which we sadly parted with on our departure
for Australia. Since the sorrow (…) never
really faded, we solved the issue otherwise.
Because, it is great to renovate a sailboat but one needs to navigate a
bit too! And we won’t make the mistake
of getting rid of it on our next departure…
3rd subject of the day.
JF’s yacht design studies. He’s
been at it for a long time, since 2006 actually (with a lot of breaks!) but now
at the end of module II of Yacht Design Program of the Westlawn Institute of Marine
technology. Each lesson takes from 100
to 200 hours: Here’s 3D renderings of
lesson 17 (an 18ft center console fishing boat), lesson 19 (a 16ft racing
skiff) and lesson 20 (a 44ft modern classic cruising ketch).
