Recycling an old boat

My friend Tobe Halton is here.  We've been playing lots of music as well as working on renovating this old abandoned wooden boat with a view to converting our sailing catamaran into a trimaran for improved flotation and carrying capacity.  Right now we are covering it with two layers of fiberglass which gets fastened to the wood with LOTS of screws.  Nasty work but hopefully we will enjoy having a better boat at the end of the fiberglassing marathon.

After repairing inside and out this third boat, which was kindly donated by some friends, we will launch it and locate it in the middle of our catamaran.  This will have the effect of creating a trimaran which should float higher in the water.  More freeboard you see.

Normally traditional wooden boats last only about a decade here as there is a marine worm which slowly eats the wood away, which is why we are seeing less wooden boats and more made of aluminum as the years roll by.  By covering this one with fiberglass below the waterline it should last several decades more.



Tobe driving screws

Martin drilling