Renovation of catamaran that took 23 years is launched.

[Concerto]

It took a long time, but 23 years after putting his catamaran alongside his home, the renovation/transformation has been completed.
Beach Haven 'landmark' finally complete after more than 20 years in the making - NZ Herald

May be this will encourage a few of you to get on with your own boat jobs - just do not take so long.

 

[scruff]

"It will stay there for around four days before it's put into the water. Steedman plans to advertise the boat for sale "and see what happens" once he's got it running - but not before taking a few family and friends onto the water to watch the America's Cup. "

Proof if ever there was that you either buy a boat to sail or build a boat to have a very expensive(180k) DIY project with no desire to sail.

Each to their own

 

[William_H]

I don't imagine he will ever get his money back from that spent on refurbishment. But as said one of the joys of boating is that you can do your own thing even if that is working on a boat in the yard. Now my little boat comes home every winter and I do enjoy pottering around sometimes improving things sometimes just keeping up with maintenance. But I always have a relaunch date fixed. (and always make it). So 23 years is a bit crazy for a refurbishment. I hope he enjoyed it other wise all just a waste of effort. ol'will

 

[LittleSister]

I like that. I don't feel so bad now! ?

 

[Neeves]

I don't imagine he will ever get his money back from that spent on refurbishment. But as said one of the joys of boating is that you can do your own thing even if that is working on a boat in the yard. Now my little boat comes home every winter and I do enjoy pottering around sometimes improving things sometimes just keeping up with maintenance. But I always have a relaunch date fixed. (and always make it). So 23 years is a bit crazy for a refurbishment. I hope he enjoyed it other wise all just a waste of effort. ol'will

I cannot believe the work he did had a focus on the re-sale value - he enjoyed doing it ( he must have done - he did it for 23 years!). So it was not wasted effort, However he will find a rather hole in his life now

His might be extreme case but lots of similar projects take much longer than initially imagined and I suspect some never are finished, or not by the person who started the project.

I had romantic dreams of building a Schionning catamaran from scratch (there is a whole industry here geared up to supply home builders) but I did some minor fibre glass work and discovered little of the time was devoted to building - most of it was fairing. My romantic dreams were dashed by hard core or dusty reality.

Jonathan

 

[JumbleDuck]

I cannot believe the work he did had a focus on the re-sale value - he enjoyed doing it ( he must have done - he did it for 23 years!). So it was not wasted effort, However he will find a rather hole in his life now

The amateur aviation world has a saying "If you want to build, build. If you want to fly, buy." In the time it takes to build a plane (and I think this goes for boats too) you can earn enough doing shifts at your local petrol station to buy a better one.

On the other hand, building is fun too. My Triumph Herald is fun precisely because I did almost every bit of the suspension, chassis, powertrain and trimming (I don't do bodywork or diffs) myself.

On the other, other hand, the sad end of the Gentleman's Yacht Centaur project shows just how out-of-hand projects can get. I have a car on blocks on my garage on which work started in 2008 and was suspended in 2009 ...