The Gleda Project

After 6000 Nautical miles of cruising my friend Martin Hivon and his family are moving on to new things and, as a result his beautifully built Tiki 38 ‘Al Raso’ is for sale. She was built to the highest standards (as can be seen from this photo of the galley) and was launched in June 2010. She’s fully equipped for [...]

For Sale: Tiki 31 plans — unused. Unused set of plans for the Tiki 31. I bought these at least 15 years ago, but never built my dream boat, and now, due to my failing health, I know I never will…….. I saw this on the Wharram builders and friends forum today and it struck [...]

Lessons learned making the forward cabin decks are paying benefits now with the construction of the main cabin decks. I have the construction broken down into three stages. Lay the first sheet of ply into the mould and glue the transverse strengtheners Glue the longitudinal strengtheners and the polystyrene sandwich material – Apply Weights Glue [...]

I squeezed in a short session today, another holiday weekend just past, a 10 day break to Portugal starting next week and my own business to look after mean that time is short right now. No point stressing though I know that things will pick up pace by the end of June and I’m still [...]

Hi and welcome to the new Gleda Project website. I’m really looking forward to telling you about this new and exciting phase in my project. Watch this space, I’ll be back soon! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on [...]

I know there must be folks out there who are thinking that the ‘Gleda’ Project has died. After two years of intense activity focussing on the build, 2009 turned out to be a year of huge change. Partly from necessity and partly from desire I made the decision to stop building the boat and to [...]

I may have been a bit premature with my thoughts of getting back to building Gleda. Since my major worklife change a few weeks ago all my time and effort has been dedicated to building my business, with little room for anything else. It’s cool though because I know that I am absolutely doing the [...]

Well I’ve worked my last Friday and tomorrow is my last Monday. I can’t wait to get started on this new chapter and really get things rolling. Many many thanks to Paul, Adrian Hall, Chris, Adrian Honeybill, Dave, Thomas, Martin and Jacques for your comments on the changes. I’m grateful to you all for re-confirming [...]

I’ve waited a long time to write this post…… For nearly three years now I’ve been trying to sustain progress on the project whilst balancing the demands of full time employment, family, friends and a ‘normal’ life. For the most part I think I managed fairly well but, as regular readers will know, this last [...]

Wow! I can’t believe it’s over two months since I posted here and that during that time I’ve passed the 1000 day mark. It’s incredible how fast the time has gone and I apologise for my absence. I’m itching to tell you all what I’ve been up to but I need to hold back for [...]