Crook

My most excellent Mum, who with Dad had been looking after the kids on the school holidays, was crook last week. I went down south to pick the kids up a day early to give her a break and perhaps get a bit of work done on the boat. Sadly when I got there Dad was crook too! So the weekend was a write off boat wise but I had a mint time with the kids.

Oh well. There's always next weekend.

The Story So Far

Years ago (I forget exactly how many but less than 10) dad picked up a part finnished hull of a Robert's 24 off a guy who used to build wooden boats professionally in Busselton. He got it pretty cheaply, about $2500, which was less than the materials cost, let alone the time spent building it.
To this point via spurts of building and long periods of other things (breaking his neck surfing, moving house, grandchildren, travel, retirement etc.) dad has managed to complete the interior, deck, cockpit, and cabin.
Retirement has left mum and dad without a lot of spare cash to complete the boat and I find myself getting down south a lot more often - so pooling our resources we should be able to get the thing in the water within a year.
Cool.

Boat Moving

Just back from an epic weekend of boat moving. We (Dad and I) moved the hull from the Busselton industrial area to Dad's back shed.

After picking up the car trailer we went to the shed in the industrial area with a couple of engine hoists and lots of rope and straps. The trailer couldn't be backed into the shed so we had to push the trailer in by hand, lift the boat onto it, and move the trailer and boat outside by hand and jack. Not in any way an easy job.
With the boat hitched up we made a careful and furtive trip through the back streets of Busselton (trying to avoid any imperial entanglements) to Dad's house. We parked outside and went in for lunch. Three hours gone already. Dude.
Before we let ourselves collapse we got stuck into the move into the back shed.
Careful reversing.

Careful lifting.
Careful placement.
All done. 7 hours of huge effort. No injuries to us and only slight damage to the shed (look closely at the top beam of the roof truss - bummer). Not a bad day's work.
Hopefully we'll get more done now that the boat is only a few steps away from Dad's back door (it's still 240km away from me in Perth but I can psych Dad up over the phone).

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