Winter can be cruel!

During the winter of 2010 we had a tremendous amount of snow. I had the deck of the boat being stored over at my friends shop. His shop building has walls that are about fifteen feet tall.

We had two snow storms that were 17" and 31" . Shortly after the snow fall a big chunk of snow slid off the roof, fell fifteen feet and landed on my boat deck on the port side. I thought that it could be repaired but it was beyond my skills. So I took the deck to my buddies boat shop for an estimate. He told me it was not repairable, and if I did have it fixed it would cost more than an old boat I could buy for parts. So that's what I did, I found a 1974 Formula hard top in Virginia Beach for $600.00. I really wanted to find a Formula that was older so the deck would look the same. When I found the year model I needed the people were asking to much money. I decided to go with the '74 model. When this boat is finished it will look like a 1974 Formula. The hard top off the boat is going in the trash and my windshield frame from my '70 model is going on. Its still going to be a beautiful boat when I'm done.

Back to work

Well its been a while since I felt like working on my boat. Since the last post I went through a divorce, found someone new, feel in love and got remarried. The boat project has been a lot of work and money. Through this whole or dill I have lost my motivation to work on the Formula. To make a long story short, with the inspiration and support from my new wife Ann, I got the fever again to resume work. How ever long it takes I will see my vision that I have planned for this boat. I know one thing, it will make one awesome casket. I can see St. Peters face now as I tie off to the pearly gates with my F-233.

July will come and July will go.

If you remember, I said earlier my boat would be ready to launch in the month of July 2009. Well I'm here today telling you that its not going to happen. You see the thing is, that the wife and I are getting a divorce. I am not going to get into details but I have clearly lost my motivation. Because of the current situation with the house and with the housing market the way it is right now and for the kids we decided to live in the house legally separated. Not only that, we will be legally divorced and still be living in the same house. I live in the basement apartment and she lives upstairs. We can't afford to pay for the mortgage plus a separate place to live. When I get up to go to work I feel good and I can't wait to get there. But when I come home and walk through the front door I fall into this temporary depression. I can't shake it, I should just give up and quit, but every time I seriously think about it I keep thinking about all the hard work I've done, the hours I spent creating this blog and the vision of the dream I have of the boat when it is finished. I don't understand why I feel the way I do about this whole project. Its just a fucking piece of shit boat, I could find one to replace it a thousand times over. I think its that I hate giving up on my dream, my vision, my hard work. So right now I'm in the process of getting the boat and all my material packed up and put into storage until I have my own place where I can work on it. If you really sit down and think about it, what a fucking joke.

Coosa time is DONE!

The bonding of my coosa panels is finally finished. Here take a look.

Home Comming

Moving Day 5-13-08 #1

Here I just pulled up to the house with the boat. I finally made the move to bring it home. I was keeping the boat down in Woodbridge Va, about 23 miles away. Having the boat that far from your house makes it very hard to get any work done. Just two weeks ago I went through my annual spring " I want a boat now!, So I can go fishing NOW!" depression and decided to scrap the whole project. But I cleared my head got my focus back and that's when I got my second wind for the 40th time and decided to put this thing in my garage. I finally feel for the first time in a very long time that Its going to happen. "I mean I'm finally going to finish this S.O.B." But earlier in the year I told everybody I would be finished buy 7-4-08, I'm going to have to push that date back a bit. But stay tuned, lots of work and pictures will be posted. And yes there will be and end.

Moving Day 5-13-08 #2

Here I'm backing the boat into the garage and going through the process of taking the boat off the trailer.

Moving Day 5-13-08 #3

The boat is off the stands now and on the dollies. I was very pleased how it fit in the garage. And the dollies make it very easy to roll around.

Moving Day 5-14-08 the next day

Jake and Henry are so excited to have the Formula at the house.

Moving Time

I'm in the process of moving my boat into my garage here at home. The boats current location is about twenty five minutes away. This makes it very difficult to do any work on my boat. Having the boat at the house will allow me to work on it every day. Finally I feel that the project can be completed and I can start using my boat.