Beginning of 2013

When I got the boat home it was cleaned of trash and the thousands of leaves that collected inside (most from my maple tree). The wood was closely inspected and showed little deterioration. My initial assessment is that the boat isn't that bad off aside from the fiberglass falling off. I hoped to get the keel off the boat so I could easily flip it upside down for the winter.  This didn't happen.  I still can't figure out how the keel is bolted on to the bottom of the boat.

I began my research on the International 110 Sailboat. It was designed by a famous boat builder, C. Raymond Hunt, as a one-design single hull racing boat. When people ask me what it looks like I like to tell them it's a giant kayak with a 300 pound steel fin keel under it. The main and jib have about 150 sq ft and the spinnaker is an additional 100 sq ft. That's a lot of sail for a 900 pound boat. I can't wait to get it in the water later this summer.

Even though the boat looked like it was in bad shape, I felt this was a project worth doing.