Boat Models

Susan has posted some things about my building a wooden boat model during my free time. This has been an on/off hobby of mine for quite a long time. Like most boys of my generation I spent many a rainy afternoong building plastic models of jets and hanging them from the ceiling of my bedroom. I do remember the only boat I built was a submarine that Myra got as a present.

My first foray into wooden boat models was about 35 years ago. In betwee life changes, I dropped out of school planning to take one of those hippie backpacking trips acrosss Europe. Around the time I got lai off of the job that was going to pay for the trip I had an accident with my parent's shower door and the glass popped out severing the tendon by the big toe on my left foot. I was stuck at my parents house and I don't know where I was but came across the model. My recollection was that it was a preformed bulkhead that needed to be shaped and all of the fittings added. I am sure I recovered well before the boat was finished and I left it with my nephew Richard and remember it sitting in their living room in varying levels of completion over the years.


When Rhonda and I got married I decided to try one of the more complicated models. I picked the H.M.S Beagle in honor of Charles Darwin and spent many many years working on it. To be honest it still is only about 90-95% complete. It had a bit on an accident while we were getting our house ready to sell.




After my surgery I was contemplating things I could do to keep busy. Over the years I moved on from model boats to furniture but I was told to keep away from power tools. Myra and Susan suggested another boat.

So I'll be spending some quality time with the H.M.S Bounty during this recovery
period.

Gary