Scars
Member
- Joined
- Oct 4, 2017
- Messages
- 7
- Location
- United States
- Vessel Name
- ThistleDew
- Vessel Make
- 2014 Keywest !*FS
Hello to the nare-do-wells, dreamers, and the odd occasional craftsman rumored to be haunting this IP address.
Scars here. ( you'll get that story when I get to know you better )
I'm a semi-retired, electrician, machine tool service engineer, database administrator, computer guy and professional tech trainer. I never met a stranger, I'm about impossible to piss off, I like dogs, and I'm the most curious person I know. ( take that as you might ).
Yup thirty-five years in industry I still haven't learned all the good stuff,.. yet, so; I enrolled in machinist school last year. I'm learning how to make useful little pieces of metal out of big unuseful pieces of metal. Happy to report that while I have been responsible for some rather loud noises, more than a few strings of colorful language, and some decidedly soiled undergarments; no one has been seriously injured in the process. Thinking maybe I could have a[STRIKE]third[/STRIKE], [STRIKE]forth[/STRIKE], maybe sixth, I forget how many,... career.
Then I ([STRIKE]w[/STRIKE]she) decided, that while we really enjoy our little center console fishing boat, if we are gonna retire the way we hope to,... I better say, "forget another career, I need to build our trawler."
So, I've poked around the interweb thingy a little and read a book by some guy named Chapman, another by a fellow named Calder, some by Buehler, and Roberts, and part of one by some off the wall fellow named Colvin. I've been a draftsman, CAD designer, and recently moved into CAM design using MasterCam. Lofting, I get, welding, yeah passable, just rusty. Woodworking, tile, auto body work (Dad was a custom car artist) HVAC, and carpentry, yup ( got the tools and scars to prove it ) Plumbing and masonry are the only two trades I really don't get along with. Plumbing leaks, cinderblocks are heavy. Guess I'm gonna have to hire the through hulls and the ballast loading done.
So that is my dissertation on me. I won't talk too much about myself anymore forever and ever Amen. And if I do, feel free to direct my attention to this, my first post.
We think we want something in the 36-40' range raised wheelhouse. Something between one of Buehler's DD and a TY43. Can't decide on steel, or good old-fashioned wood. Don't know enough yet to decide. Then there is the, do you want to spend your retirement building a yacht or yachting? question.
What I come here hoping to get enlighted about are the things I will be glad to have learned here, on the cheap and easy way. What works, what doesn't, where is it frugal to substitute bits from HD instead of paying the $$$$ at the chandlers; and when is it a prelude to death by stupidity? Whos designs build better, where do you milk an extra knot out of a hull? Can a 40' trawler really do 8 knots with "pushme" sails and a 40hp Yanmar idling at a gallon an hour? What are the best recipes for sea-gull? And other important stuff like how to document a boat without paying 30% of what it cost to build it in taxes. When approaching southeast of disorder from the northwest do you in-fact sail through dis-disorder, or order-dis, or even dis-order-dis? I bet there is someone here, who knows the answers ( or at least would say they do ) to most all these questions.
Looking forward to an education, a few good stories, and hopefully a lot of new friends. -- Scars -- oh and by the way, if you folks don't talk about building boats here, could someone please direct me to someplace that does? and in that case, I'll be in touch in about four years.
Scars here. ( you'll get that story when I get to know you better )
I'm a semi-retired, electrician, machine tool service engineer, database administrator, computer guy and professional tech trainer. I never met a stranger, I'm about impossible to piss off, I like dogs, and I'm the most curious person I know. ( take that as you might ).
Yup thirty-five years in industry I still haven't learned all the good stuff,.. yet, so; I enrolled in machinist school last year. I'm learning how to make useful little pieces of metal out of big unuseful pieces of metal. Happy to report that while I have been responsible for some rather loud noises, more than a few strings of colorful language, and some decidedly soiled undergarments; no one has been seriously injured in the process. Thinking maybe I could have a[STRIKE]third[/STRIKE], [STRIKE]forth[/STRIKE], maybe sixth, I forget how many,... career.
Then I ([STRIKE]w[/STRIKE]she) decided, that while we really enjoy our little center console fishing boat, if we are gonna retire the way we hope to,... I better say, "forget another career, I need to build our trawler."
So, I've poked around the interweb thingy a little and read a book by some guy named Chapman, another by a fellow named Calder, some by Buehler, and Roberts, and part of one by some off the wall fellow named Colvin. I've been a draftsman, CAD designer, and recently moved into CAM design using MasterCam. Lofting, I get, welding, yeah passable, just rusty. Woodworking, tile, auto body work (Dad was a custom car artist) HVAC, and carpentry, yup ( got the tools and scars to prove it ) Plumbing and masonry are the only two trades I really don't get along with. Plumbing leaks, cinderblocks are heavy. Guess I'm gonna have to hire the through hulls and the ballast loading done.
So that is my dissertation on me. I won't talk too much about myself anymore forever and ever Amen. And if I do, feel free to direct my attention to this, my first post.
We think we want something in the 36-40' range raised wheelhouse. Something between one of Buehler's DD and a TY43. Can't decide on steel, or good old-fashioned wood. Don't know enough yet to decide. Then there is the, do you want to spend your retirement building a yacht or yachting? question.
What I come here hoping to get enlighted about are the things I will be glad to have learned here, on the cheap and easy way. What works, what doesn't, where is it frugal to substitute bits from HD instead of paying the $$$$ at the chandlers; and when is it a prelude to death by stupidity? Whos designs build better, where do you milk an extra knot out of a hull? Can a 40' trawler really do 8 knots with "pushme" sails and a 40hp Yanmar idling at a gallon an hour? What are the best recipes for sea-gull? And other important stuff like how to document a boat without paying 30% of what it cost to build it in taxes. When approaching southeast of disorder from the northwest do you in-fact sail through dis-disorder, or order-dis, or even dis-order-dis? I bet there is someone here, who knows the answers ( or at least would say they do ) to most all these questions.
Looking forward to an education, a few good stories, and hopefully a lot of new friends. -- Scars -- oh and by the way, if you folks don't talk about building boats here, could someone please direct me to someplace that does? and in that case, I'll be in touch in about four years.