Initial Weigh In...
Well, hello there. I've been dormant (again) for a bit, but I've finally got another quick post together. I didn't make Portugal, as you can tell by me posting right about now. If I was in Portugal, I'd be slinging masts around, mounting stuff, loading the boat, and going for trial sails to get ready to depart on 31 October. As my boat's not done and shipping containers into or out of the US right now is just plain not possible (LA port is full, 80 freighters offshore waiting to be offloaded, no containers to be had, shipping handlers/organizers have no idea of what problem to solve, how to solve it, or when it can be solved). As such, I'm just getting to weighing my constructed hull. This is without any equipment; only required wood is included. I turned up at (drum roll please...) That's kilograms, friends and neighbors. The basically bare hull weighs about 1083 lbs. With all of the equipment (batteries, mast, sails, paint, fairing, keel, life raft,