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Assuming you are talking about SV Seeker, why would you think there is going to be a structural problem associated with welding ?? As you and I know, once the basic skill has been achieved, steel welds perform extremely well, and are largely over engineered in most situations. Lack of...

Damn. Unless wild oats is off the East Coast of Tasmania already, something not right. Even the Google earth KML file show last years. Oh well.

Might have been covered in an earlier post, cant get the CYC tracker to show anything but last years yachts

Umm, Macs have the amazing ability to remove the mast easily. By one person. That's the appeal. Hanging around the Mac forums, never came across a broken mast story. I always said that Macs Sail better than your best Motorboat, and Motor better than your best Sailboat. Then, there is "how...

Aha! Doug is going to fix the low stern problem with extra "blisters". With steel, redesigning the hull is always an option.

"85% complete. It'll be a bargain for someone." Hmm, maybe. Years ago, an even more amatuer boatbuilder spent 4 years on a small ferro cement yacht near me, and had it trucked 50 miles to launch. It was so bad , that as the crane lowered it into the ocean,  the water rose inside to match the...

Great news. If you start a "Patreon" page, I would love to contribute to a video of proceedings. I suspect his videos won't show the full "emotional impact " of the ceremony  

"Puget sound is a great place to find out how the boat handles ...  " How are the rescue services in that area?

Those wrinkles will come right out once the hull is fully flooded.

So, he is planning on living aboard as he completes  the interior. That means he will be on the boat when it capsizes in heavy winds, its keel falls of or it springs a leak. Or all three given the right set of conditions. And since it has no cockpit, he will be inside. I vote for a "24 hour...

Good to see he is adding another 200 kilos of Oxygen sucking, Carbon Monoxide generators. I bet THOSE weren't on his weight tables. Actually, I don't think there are any weight tables for anything. I guess that's the advantage of not bothering with stability calculations at all.

Yeah, he does. And the weather is really bad at the moment, so he's stuck in the shed. Mind you, its a big shed with lots of toys ........   :-)

Just reading that "Raptor" s latest post. Looks like a crowdfunding project, with some unhappy deposit paying "customers" You know, our friend with the dubious boat has spent over $12,000 on his scrapyard monster. That's a pretty decent deposit on a used, proven yacht design, already built...

Yeah. I said as much on one of the comments. At least one person agreed. That makes only 1 out of about 10 "enablers", which goes to show what a load of amateurs they are.

Gee, you really have no faith in amateur builders. I'll be posting my Youtube Video soon about building an F35 in the open my backyard, out of leftover aluminium cans . That'll show ya.

He's not even reading the comments on his own videos by the look of it.

I had more rudder area on my small fibreglass trailer/sailer

Attractive black exterior, dried out, cracked grain softwood underneath, but heavy enough to do someone without a helmet some severe damage.

Yes, as the water leaks in at the badly welded seams. We really need an unbiased video camera to accompany the trip, for posterity, of course.

"I think the waterline will be about here ...." Hahahahahahahahahahaha