You must be in the wrong place - this is Tara and Courtney's boat blog.
What, still here? OK, welcome. Bienvenue. Failte. This is where we'll document the details (pictures, lots of pictures) and progress (maybe not so much of that) as we build our Willow Bay Shilling. The Shilling is a 17' length-on-deck day sailer, built in cedar strip on plywood frames. We figure, any jocular comments to the contrary notwithstanding, that she'll take about a year and a half to complete.
Time for Christmas Eve dinner with the family, so we'll leave this introduction short and sweet. Next: How did it come to this???
Courtney & Tara are building a Willow Bay "Shilling" - a 17 foot (length-on-deck) wooden day-sailer. This blog will document construction details and progress, from ordering study plans to launch day and beyond.
The Shilling
Designed by Phil Swift, Willow Bay Boats
Who's building this thing?
- Courtney & Tara
- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Courtney is a senior administrator for a non-profit agency serving adults with intellectual disabilities. Tara is renovating her cottage. Aside from boats, they like making and listening to music, cooking and eating good food, travel (especially to gigs!), and reading.
But what's her NAME?
Some of you might have heard what we plan to name this boat, but we've decided not to make that information public until she has a proper dedication and launching ceremony. In the meantime, we welcome name suggestions. You might not change our minds, but it should be entertaining, so feel free to leave a comment with your suggestion!
Friends and such
- Barrett's Boatbuilding Blog
- Big Rock - aley goodness
- Courtney's brother's boat, Island Eagle
- Craft A Craft - BIG boat design, building, & cruising site
- Half Pints - LOCAL aley goodness!
- Nightfall's Twilight Zone
- Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival
- Ron's sailing adventures!
- Sailing Margherita - willowbayboy's Shilling
- Spokaloo's Boatbuilding Blog
- Tad Roberts - yacht design
- The Shipyard School Raid
- The Unlikely Boatbuilder - another build blog
- Venus Murphy (Courtney's former band)
- Willow Bay Boats - home of the Shilling
- Wooden Boat online forum
"There is nothing--absolutely nothing--half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." - Ratty, The Wind In The Willows
1 comment:
re: "We figure... that she'll take about a year and a half to complete."
"We," Kemo Sabe?? Ahem. Maybe three years...
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