A New Build Begins

[Charlie43]

Mark,

I agree. It's one's mistakes that teach the most. I'll move forward what's good about that boat and try to leave behind my mistakes. Or as a friend has on her refrigerator, "Make a new mistake today." I still don't really understand why I didn't get its waterline right. But rather than fret and stew, I'm going to put some distance between myself and the problem by building something fun.

I love the look of the Rye Bay 2.2.  Even in its rawness (Photo One), it's obvious the designer got its lines right. It's cute, fat, and easy, the sort of therapy I need right now. The finished version (Photo Two) is squeaky clean, something anyone should be proud of. But I can tell the oarlocks are too low (which means building oarlock blocks). I want to pull out the forward and aft thwarts (and the mid-frame), which means adding back other structural re-enforcement, double the skegs, cut handholds in the transom, scupper the gunnel, finish bright, etc., etc., maybe a dozen changes in all.

But the "soul" of the boat, its lines, will remain the designer's, because "he got them right". That part of the boat has a felicity that needs no changes.  

Charlie