I’m a boat-builder now, and I have the picture to prove it.
She’s 16 cm long, about 5 ft high (sorry, but I’m still only half way through decimalising) and about 5 in. in beam, and I built her myself.
Well, some mob in Japan actually made the hull, and the mast, and the rigging, and the sails, the keel, and the radio control system. But I put it all together and, for a dedicated non-handyman that’s quite achievement!
She’s going to be christened (not with a bottle, you understand) “Yot”. I’d have had the name on already, but those inscrutable Asians only supplied one each of the letters and the numbers for the sail. So a 9 and an upside down 6 on t’other side of the sail was the best I could do today.
Everything appears to work OK, so the first sail could be tomorrow afternoon (perhaps) or Saturday. Trouble is, I’m not sure if there’s enough water in the two local yachting lakes. You’d be amazed how rapidly water evaporates from a shallow pool in temperatures about 32c.
By the way, the dog wasn’t impressed with the yacht, so he’s stuffed now. But before you get red in the face though – he was stuffed before!
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Nice yacht. Hope you find a place to sail it.
Are you on the metric system in Australia? We are still(and will probably remain) on that other system i.e., inches, feet, miles, system given to us by the British so many years ago.
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