This blog is being written to document the building of SeaBeeZee. It will include photographs and descriptions of the construction stages so that the choice of materials and workmanship can not be questioned.
SeaBeeZee is the current project for Chris and Birgit (C and B Easy cat).
We were looking for a boat to cruise the northern coast of Australia. Living in the Northern Rivers of NSW meant that our boat was going to have to be shoal draft. The range of swing keel yachts was limited, and the seaworthiness of shallow draft yachts was questionable. Catamarans were well out of our price range.
And then we found about Peter Snell’s Easy cats. Building one of these is certainly within our capability.
If you have read about our boating in SeaBee, our Hartley Vixen, you will have seen that we have experience with plywood boats. That boat was built almost 30 years ago, and has been well cared for all that time. Plywood does not scare me as a boat building material. The thought of a cored hull, and especially cored with balsa – that really scares me.
I know that the value of a home built boat is reduced by questionable workmanship. The information within this blog will be retained as documentation of the building of our boat.