A decision to build a 40 foot Catamaran should not be taken lightly. Join Ross Boardman in a series of videos that shows the ups and downs, logistics and blo...

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the idea of putting together a video log

series of of a catamaran build has been

a coined by civil their friends and

family I think it's very important to

document such a major project in my life

and and at the end of the day you know

who knows you might learn something you

definitely won't learn anything from

maybe you might pick up some hints and

tips as we go along but it's quite an

interesting story it's a major project

it's something I'm not really sure I

should have taken on however I'm into it

and things are getting very real

it all started quite some time ago where

my wife Janet and I were paddling down a

local river system and and I got these

amazing catamarans I mean it clearly

does the most beautiful beautiful craft

and we were suggesting that we might

want to buy Caribbean a four-wheel drive

and tour around Australia and we've been

doing that for some time however Janet

sort of gave me the green light to look

into the possibility of a of a cruising

catamaran this is like a leaving the

gate open for a dog that just wants to

get out I've went home immediately

months and months of research late-night

research you know 24 hours a day just

basically trying to work out what we

should be doing what we should be buying

and and ultimately a friend of ours and

a local fellow with a beautiful cat down

in there really suggested I might want

to try and build one so here this story

all came to pass once that got into my

head it was all over I then began

researching the idea of building a kit

building one from a plan and all those

options seemed open to us

you know that sort of research tends to

lead to other things we then went to the

Sydney Boat Show and investigated some

of these beautiful craft I mean we soon

realized that that's quite an expensive

outlay

I mean to purchase a new catamaran is

just way beyond our capabilities so Phil

you're all very dejected we drove the

three-hour time to Jervis Bay here in

the South Coast in New South Wales net

and basically after about half a dozen

beers I sat there with my bottom lip out

like very young upset that the dream was

shattered and and ultimately at about

1:30 in the morning clicked on eBay and

found a mold for a catamaran and and

didn't say much just click buy but

certainly gave it some serious thought

but I then ran upstairs dragged my poor

wife out of bed drag the down to my

computer and and she just shook her head

at me and she knew that it was all over

it was going to happen we purchased that

mold on eBay of a gentleman but it

happened to be in in Mid North

Queensland around about 18 hours drive

from where we are we then set about

working out how the hell we were going

to get that bastard down to Jervis Bay

and this is a 23 foot wide 40 foot long

30 tonne piece of composite towing and

some very sleepless nights didn't she

ultimately we we came up with a plan and

you'll see on the video I dragged my

poor brother-in-law Jimmy to Queensland

15 hours drive straight with the idea of

a subtle hint of her or temptation of a

holiday in mind for him yeah a bit of

boy is bonding to have a bit of a good

time together when we got there it spent

we spent five days framing and then 12

hours of solid grinding and welding to

cut it in half and by doing that we were

able to keep it

within the parameters of the wide-load

the sort of other regulations in New

South Wales and Queensland I think

you're only allowed to have them up to

three point three metres wide now we had

a boat that was six point seven meters

wide so we were touch over on one of

those we also investigate the idea of a

trucking company and we basically were

told where to go with the first couple

that we spoke to

however we were put onto a gentleman

called Terry burns who was without a

doubt the most amazing fellow he met us

on the site and he had in fact moved our

mold before when the the yachting

manufacturer that I owned it decided the

discard was put in his stories he had to

move the sticker and moved it onto our

property in front of this beautiful

waterfront view and this stinking

20-foot high behemoth sat right in front

of her window with a waterfront view so

she was more than happy to get rid of it

and couldn't help us more and sure we

thanks go out to you because she gave us

the opportunity to use your power or

drink a water bottle were there for the

five days and and yeah we were able to

sort of get it ready now when Terry came

out to the side he said you look like it

can do man Roxy and if you can be a

can-do man over you can do man too and

true to his word this guy got this thing

down to us in about three weeks three

weeks later that thing was sitting in

Jervis Bay now the funny thing is that I

heard Terry on the phone to his partner

on the day and he said I think we're

going to retire and this one honey and

and I think that means that it was going

to cost the earth well through to his

word he actually came through as quoted

with a little bit extra because I did

cut up a little bit why and we did get a

damage over Spade I was a very very

interesting day the day the think

through now there's absolutely - Sammis

came down the princess highway all the

way from Queens and it was a three day

road trip came we closed an hour

princess highway bridge the police were

really good and closed off the

southbound bridge and brought it across

one northbound bridge - to get it over

the show live in River and then down

into Jervis Bay so it's quite a story

it's now sitting in our you know factory

unit in the carpark in fact it is the

carpark and there's been much talk about

this

there's ugly arc of a thing that's

sitting in our factory we've you know

we're moving forward

quite a bit bit of time on now we're

about seven months into it so far and

there's a lot more to come so I hope you

enjoy the story this is this is the

beginning of a quite a very long story

so enjoy it

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