My Backyard Boats: The Piccup Squared building log

  

Launch day drifting in the Piccup Squared.

    06 March 04: The Piccup Squared, a design by Jim Michalak, offers an 11-foot pram for sailing and rowing, and also for use with a small electric trolling motor, sports a lug rig and promises to be of a size for single-handed use, with a finished weight of about 100 pounds. Jim designed Piccup as the best boat he could imagine that would fit in the back of a pickup truck.

    These are the entries in the building log (with the latest entry listed first):

• 23 August 03: Piccup the pace: Rush to launch
• 14 July 03: Mast, spar partners rounded up
• 04 July 03: Piccup passes put-in process
• 04 July 03: All but in the water
• 19 June 03: Getting my oars in a row
• 16 June 03: Prime time
• 10 June 03: Down the hatches
• 06 June 03: Fillets for all my friends!
• 02 June 03: Flipping over the Piccup
• 27 May 03: Upside down and done
• 21 May 03: Clamping down -- gunwales go on
• 20 May 03: It looks a lot like a boat now
• 18 May 03: Bevels -- sticking to the plan
• 06 May 03: Lofty work comes first
• 04 May 03: Piccup and start over again   

    The log is also available as a single file:

• Large, single-file version of log