I’ve never done “build blogs” before, and I have no idea what other people’s motivations are for those who post them, but here are mine for trying this out:
- I want to remember the different steps here. This is a digital memory of sorts.
- Since I’m not on social media anymore, this provides an easy way to send photos to people if I find the need to do that.
- I must admit, as I was considering building a scamp, there are many many different build blogs out there, and it was pretty nice to be able to read them and see how they did things. Maybe somebody in the future might find this to be similarly useful. I started this with my Scamp build.
The big challenge here for this will be twofold:
- Will I actually remember to take photos of different steps? (surprisingly yes, at least some of the time)
- Will I find the time to update this periodically? (well batch publish of multiple updates once a looooooong blue moon, sure)
- Will this be good enough to give me a sense of satisfaction if the damn boat sinks on it’s maiden voyage? (time will tell)
Current project #
I’ve started building a Scamp. Good links about the scamps include:
- The scamp forum
- Other people’s build blogs:
- Christine DeMerchant
- Building the Argo
- Building Shackleton
- Building Hagoth - built by the same person who built Shackleton - he built two in a row! And I thought I was crazy for building two paddleboards at the same time!
- Interesting posts I’ve made a note of for consideration when I get to that point in my own build:
Past projects #
These include:
- A stitch & glue
Chesapeake LT
17
kayak (from a kit)
- You know, now that I think about it, maybe I built the 17, not the LT version?
- A skin on frame baidarka (from the excellent skinboat school)
- At least one, maybe two(?), aleut style kayak paddles
- A euro style paddle, following (but not really closely) the directions in the back of The Strip Built Sea Kayak
- Two standup Kaholo paddle boards (both from plans)
Photos from almost all of the above are in the Builds section.