Prompted by BBO's Transit Camper Conversion thread in GM and of course the interest in EddieJ's build projects, I wondered if anyone had found any more "How i spent the last 15 years and the wife's money" blogs on the web?

I've been following this one for a couple of years:

Arctic Tern Boat Project

It's a Canadian guy building a boat, an 'Arctic Tern'. He's a bit of a perfectionist as are a lot of these people but I have to admire his antifoul treatment (in volume 3).

Some nice work on that Excelsior! Just had a quick flip through but will spend some more time on it later.

Originally Posted by demographic

I've had a bit better look at that Boat build, good stuff.

Since I moved out here and effectively gave up bikes (I still do a bit of fixing on locals' scooters) I been hovering around boat sites to check out building and repair. I've always liked boats (had to leave a good one in UK ) and I spend probably more time working on them now than I ever did bikes.

The thing with wood is that it's fairly easy to work with if you have the tools (as you know) and fibreglass is quite easy to work with too, What surprised me about that boat build is that it's a basic stitch and glue hull to start with. I'd have thought that for the size of boat it would have been built on frames. I'm planning on a 15 ft sailing dinghy that'll be built on frames and the only thing holding me back really is having somewhere to work. Down in the car park with power on an extension lead isn't really a viable option although it's how I do a fair number of repairs

Building bikes and cars or campers requires a lot more different skills I think (although that's possibly because I don't have those skills). That Excelsior has some lovely touches on it and building engines (he is basically building engines for them isn't he?) is definitely out of my league.

Originally Posted by Yambo

Prompted by BBO's Transit Camper Conversion thread in GM and of course the interest in EddieJ's build projects, I wondered if anyone had found any more "How i spent the last 15 years and the wife's money" blogs on the web?

I've been following this one for a couple of years:

Arctic Tern Boat Project

It's a Canadian guy building a boat, an 'Arctic Tern'. He's a bit of a perfectionist as are a lot of these people but I have to admire his antifoul treatment (in volume 3).

Dammit! I just spent four hours reading that and it isn't even finished.

Bugger. Now I'm hooked.

Hope it floats.

Screwd.

He'd have finished it 18 months ago if he didn't keep changing his mind about what wood to use where, or should that sheer rail radius be 3/8 or 1/2 . . .

Plenty of garage/shop build threads over at Garage Journal...in the "garage gallery" forum

Originally Posted by ZRX61

Plenty of garage/shop build threads over at Garage Journal...in the "garage gallery" forum

Those guys have too much space and too much money. I haven't even got any room for a shed