Space…

I’ve had a couple of emails about space!

We decided to build the boat on our driveway. We bought a “portable” garage tent to use. It’s 3.6m wide and over 7m long. We have only set it up to just over 6m so we can keep a car on the drive.

To kick off we made the frames in the garage on a board on top of a couple of pallets before building the jig in the tent. So far it has proved to work well. It’s going to be too tight for fibreglassing the hull. We will have to open up the sides to get all around, but that should be OK.

It’s been great during the Summer. Windy days can be an issue as the tent turns into a parachute, but it’s OK if we can leave the “door” closed. Might need a heater for the winter though!

But you don’t need a boatyard to build a 5.80.