Here's more images that I am having to upload a second time for some unknown reason.

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.

Well it has taken a year, but I finally have the plans and am preparing to move ahead with the building of this boat. The actual construction is still off in the future-about mid 2007, but there is lots of prep work to be done. I have been getting some of the yard rearranged for the route in and out of materials and the final extraction of the boat several years from now. Unfortunately I am not the first to start building the enlarged version of the Farrier Catamaran called the F-44SC. Another builder in Oregon has started and you can see some of his work at http://supercruiser.blogspot.com/

Mt. Shasta at Sunrise

Here's a little something for a screensaver that we took returning from Canada to California.

Farrier F-41 X2

This is an update and a little thought about this process. I thought this would be better than sending emails, and in some ways it may be so because this is a more permanent and accessable format. However, it is a real nuisance to upload images, even at DSL speeds it is slow! I guess everything has its up and downs.

Welcome Aboard!

Well I finally decided to give this a shot and make it easier for everyone to get updates and info, and especially images without having to suffer through dialup down time. This way you can copy or just view only the images you want and save them at the resolution you want.

I just got back this weekend from SF to visit the construction site for ROTKAT and see how Arjan was progressing. He is building a 43 foot Gary Lidgard design which is very similar to the Farrier, and has some features I would like to incorporate in the plans I will probably purchase in the coming months. It has taken me several years to get this far in my evaluation and planning, but should go much faster now that I have come to this point. (More on this point in a future post.)

This first image is of Endless Summer, a Farrier boat very similar to what I wish to build. She is currently in a slip in Emeryville, CA. This is pretty much just a stones thow from Berkley, across the bay from San Francisco.

The next image is of my wife Vicki and Arjan talking while viewing the back of his cockpit which is close to being painted with an exterior Acrylic Marine paint. He is close but not quite ready to start the plumbing and electrical.

And finally, a couple sunset views of San Francisco this last weekend near the Golden Gate, looking North. If you look closely in the one on the right, you will see the Golden Gate Bridge to the right and the entry to the bay on the left.