Hard nights

While I’m preparing a building site in my garden, I’ve finished all the articles, provided with Tiki 21 study plans. And suddenly after that, I got an idea: “Maybe it’s better to build a Tiki 26?”. It’s more ocean-capable, has 4 berths, one can sit inside. Then, while sleeping I was busy thinking how I would bring hulls from the build site, as they will be not 90 kilos but 190 then. I even checked the specs for telescoping machine cranes that night.

In the morning I saw that epoxy will be 2.5x more. Hard choice.

During the day I was inclined back to 21, as a first build (my kid said, that we’ll build it and later sell it and build a bigger one!).

And just before going to bed, I stepped into an idea of why not building a Narai Mk IV: the classic one with big flat space on top. I like it! Why wasting time on smaller Tiki, when I can start building the good classic family ocean cruiser in a proper build site from the beginning. With that thought I went to sleep. Poor me.

Next day morning, I am checking the est. materials costs (updated for 2020 on wharram site): Narai Mk IV is almost 10x higher than Tiki 21. Looks like I’ll be building Tiki first. And start saving for Narai.

Some notes for the future

The book to read later: Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia, by Christinga Thompson.