Many thanks to Maxime for the Seeker tour in French.   🙂

Reinventing the wheel. It feels really good to have a plan for the rigging. Maxime was great to work with. Yeah, he’s a little out of his oil field element, but not by much. Moving heavy loads is moving heavy loads. I know we are not doing things like a conventional sailboat, but I think there are plenty of conventional sailboats. And I can here it now, “Why reinvent the wheel.” …we’ll because if we never reinvented the wheel, we’d have ox cart wheels on formula race cars wouldn’t we. Find your creative passion, blow off the dust, and put it to work. Go on, reinvent the wheel. –Doug

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Travel! And go somewhere they don’t speak your language. Go alone. Get as far out of your comfort zone as you can. Only then will the world open up, your fears will melt away and you will be living fully. Maxime is one of those people. He was not just traveled the world, but he as worked all over the world and with people from all over the world. He can get anything done, with any tools available, in any conditions, with any co-worker. That’s what we want on Seeker. Seeker crew Rock!

Love Me is gonna get wet! Many thanks to our Rich, our newest Seeker crew member. His fabrication skills were simply top drawer governor. Also thanks to Richard of 42Fab on YouTube, his apprentice; Sayer, and Greg Stein for there help. It seemed like a job that would take a few days. It took 10. But it would have taken 20 without the crew. Seeker Crew Rock!

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Fuel tanks are in as well as all of the control cables, thanks to Ben who drove in from Florida.  One more week and we should have her ready to go.

I’m really happy with the progress on Seeker’s tender. She is just unusual enough for my taste. I wish more people built boats, but I wish those that do build boats would do something a little more unusual more often. There is little to nothing to learn from building from stock plans. Don’t be afraid of picking up a piece of cardboard and start cutting and gluing until you have a model that you believe will suite your requirements. You do not have to be a naval architect to know that the water needs to stay outside. Go ahead and try it.  –Doug

This is an amazing time we live in.  Connected by live high resolution images, air liners, and ideas of human adventure and exploration this project has brought students as well as seasoned professionals together from across our planet.   Our little boat and her especially her bigger sister have changed my life and opened my eyes to a wonderful world.   I’m glad all of you have decided to come along.   You might not be Lars who flew over from Norway for the second time to lend a hand, but just watching is supporting what we do and we appreciate it.  Thank you. –Doug

Betsy is very excited about this.