Well, it has been some time since my last post, and I am sure folks are wondering about the progress on Great Ketch.
During the super cold weekends, which we have experienced much this past year ---in fact the entire country has felt to its bone -- I have made effort to build a small sail boat in the warm comfort of my shop. The boat is a "sail camping boat" designed for protected waters. Her dimensions are 8 feet long and 4 feet wide and app 32 inches high at the cabin level. The hull us a PDR design and the concept of the cabin is based on the Paradox sailboat designed by Matt Leyden.
My friend Andre-Francois designed the boat with the two concepts blended and called his boat type "Gorfnik." (click here for plans of
Gorfnik Plans) He is an outdoorsman and professional survivalist, who as an educator and adventurer has sailed his boat throughout many lakes in Canada up north to the far south of the Florida Everglades.
The sailing from the cabin in a small boat from which inspirational ideas were made upon the design of the Gorfnik was in due in large part from the Paradox boat. To see more about the Paradox micro cruiser click
Paradox Boat.
The theme of this site focused on work on Great Ketch, yet, I felt that sharing some information to which explains pauses, and delays in Great Ketch posts would at a minimum provide readers some interesting resources about small boats and my time working with boats.
