New endings, new beginnings...

Time passes quickly & things change. My wife is having her 3rd chemo-therapy session this Thursday. Tests have shown the cancer is reducing, and even so, surgery is likely in a few weeks.

I have changed my blog a bit, added some colour to it, as it seemed a bit drab and lacking in cheerfulness. It's probably me though, and the blog only reflected my own recent lack of cheerfulness...

For years, my wife and I have wanted to live on the water. Circumstances,children and the idea that we were young with plenty of time in front of us, meant that it just didn't happen. Our preference would  be a dutch barge, but that's out of reach. So we have decided to build ourselves a boat ASAP. It's going to be a simple river boat, made in the Square Boat Fashion, out of marine ply, epoxy and very simple construction.

It's going to be  a cross between George Buelher's River Walker and this sternwheeler.

It will have the hull of the stern wheeler, with the superstructures being  a cross with  RiverWalker's cabin and wheelhouse. I think I'll end up having the stern wheel too! If you're going to be seen as an excentric, you might just as well go the whole hog: not many sternwheelers to be seen on the Norfolk Broads!

And, as George Buelhers puts it, she can offer a lot of pleasure:  ...as long as you don't get carried away and start building her like she was some sort of classic racing yacht. She ain't. She's a plywood box.

Indeed, she is a plywood box, I won't get carried away , I just want her built quickly!