In one of my final efforts to see as many other builders and Farrier Cats before starting my own build, I went to San Diego to see Don Blackstones' Tiger. He is a very knowledgable and pleasant host who was very willing to share many of his discoveries and mistakes with me. He will be leaving in March to do a transpacific tour but is still doing a lot of finish up and prep work. He will be making his adventures available on his site tigervoyage.com. I wish him all the best and am very thankful that he spent part of his weekend with us and shared so much. Thanks again Don and I hope I can only return the favor someday. Some of the great stuff I came away with was sources for supplies and ideas and options. I also liked his hard bimini with integrated solar panels and a ton of other ideas he has incorporated into Tiger. Vicki liked the washer/dryer combo.
As part of the weekend we also toured much of the harbor and scouted out the boat supply houses there. I will definitely be back for more supplies.
I will be adding images as I get time-I took around 200. Comments should be turned on by the time this posts also. Sorry Karel.