Nano 2.6 - building a boat with Thomas

This blog is to document the process of building a small, inexpensive high performance sail boat with my (ten) eleven year old son. I want to give him the opportunity to fall in love with sailing and have the chance to be part of a project designed to help make sailing accessible to more people.

Friday, May 7, 2010

Things to do

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There is a lot more to do, even though the basic hull is complete.  Here is a list of tasks / incomplete ideas (in no particular order or pr...
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Thursday, May 6, 2010

Creativity

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One of the things I absolutely love about building a boat like this is that there is no wrong way to do anything - since this is a prototype...
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Monday, May 3, 2010

Chemical warfare

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Thomas is quite excited about his power boating license, and has been pushing to adapt the Nano to use our 2 horsepower outboard.  Because o...

Sneak Peek

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Needed a little motivation to keep going on the finish work, so we pulled off the tape and stuff covering the deck to get an idea of what th...
Friday, April 30, 2010

Progress

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Thomas had a day off school for teacher professional development (I think this is a day where they go to drink). He's currently off vie...
Wednesday, April 28, 2010

What is a Nano 2.6?

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Eric has changed the name of the boat we are building from Microskiff to Nano 2.6. I'm sure there are good reasons, probably due to pro...
Monday, April 26, 2010

Thomas news

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Thomas has accomplished something his mother and I did not expect to happen - he decided he was going to get his Pleasure Craft Operator...
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