Mon Tiki: Montauk's Charter Sailing Catamaran

As we got closer and closer there was a lot of ruminating on the best way to turn the hulls. In the end we went old-school. A bunch of old tires Corrigan’s was happy to have us take off their hands, and a 4×4 we found in the yard as a lever:

Likely we’ll get the starboard hull turned tomorrow. Yes, it feels great!

We added a couple new guys to the crew this week. Things are going faster. Exciting!

This ad will be running in the local papers later this week, but if you’re interest or know someone who might be, get in touch or pass it along!

FULL TIME POSITIONS AVAILABLE NOW

The Montauk Catamaran Company is expanding and hiring 2-4 full time assistant builders for our Bridgehampton location. Relevant skills include carpentry, drywall & plaster, tile-work, auto-body work, painting, baking, sewing, and flower arranging. Positive attitude, punctuality and good references are as important as skills. (We can teach you to build boats, but we can’t teach you not to be a jerk.)

To apply, please fax your resume’ to (646) 390-5065 or email to david at sailingmontauk dot com. Come help us build MON TIKI, the only US Coast Guard Inspected Passenger Sailing Vessel on the East End!

If you’ve always wanted to build a boat, this is your chance to be a part of a great project with a great crew, and get paid too. Hope to hear from you!

Last week I bought one of those GoPro “Hero” cameras. The reason I bought it is because I want to fly it from a kite and get arial shots of our boat underway; or put it on pole and get footage of dolphins swimming between MON TIKI’s hulls.

But the Hero cam also has a nifty time-lapse function.

Joe and Dave lining up lower side-panels

Remember all those panels we were coating with epoxy? Well now all that work we did in December starts to pay off!

Today we butted up the side panels, joining each section with biaxial fiberglass. They’ll cure over night and tomorrow we’ll start fastening them to the hulls. The fish will have skins. Even better, the insides are already finished smooth and ready for painting.

Yes, I’m very excited!

Backbones, bulkheads and stringers.

The stringers are the biggest change between the Tiki 38 as originally designed by James Wharran and the Tiki 38 we’re building. To meet USCG regulations both the number and size of the stringers has been increased. The original design had two 3/4″x 1 1/2″ stringers in the lower hull section. Our boat has four stringers in the lower hull section, and they’re a beefy 1 1/2″ x 2″.