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Here you can keep up with progress as the build proceeds, if you are so-minded. You can watch the movie, a time-lapse sequence
of photos taken 10 mins apart, which shows the build to date. Or, you can peruse the topics for more detailed photgraphs
and comments. This is mainly a "how to" area of the website but in places it might be a "how not to" area - be my judge!
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Building Swing Cat - the Movie
Building the Hulls - from Keel to Knuckle Bulkheads and Topsides - from Knuckle to Gunwale Constructing the Daggerboards & Cases Of Camber, Carlins, Coamings & Coachroofs Rudders, Steerage and Propulsion Fitting Out the Hulls Moving the Hulls Bridgedeck Construction
Building Swing Cat - the Movie. A sequence of time lapse photographs taken 10 mins apart. Part 1 was started on 16th August and takes us up to the 22nd December representing 742 man-hours of work. Part 2 was started in January 2012 and takes us up to Easter covering a further 522 man-hours. Part 3 covers the period from Easter to 15th July. Part 4 covers the period from mid-July to the end of November. Part 5, beginning Dec to end of March, documents another 762 man-hours. Part 6 covers March to September 2013. Total time spent on the project so this point is 4482 man-hours. Part 7 covers up until March 2014 and Part 8 shows how a hull was moved. Total time on the project is now 6165 man-hours. Part 9 shows the mast being lifted into place, in December 2014. The last video shows the launch, on 27th September 2016, made up of video clips speeded up to twice real-time and lasting about 2mins 30secs.
By October 2015 the time spent on the project had risen to about 8,500 man-hours. By the launch (Sept 2016) the final figure was 10,450 man-hours.
I estimate this is accurate to plus or minus 50. The elapsed time was 5 years 2 months.
View Movie Part 1 View Movie Part 2 View Movie Part 3 View Movie Part 4 View Movie Part 5 View Movie Part 6 View Movie Part 7 View Movie Part 8 View Movie Part 9 View Launch Movie Top of Page 
Bulkheads and Topsides - from Knuckle to Gunwale Photographs and comment on installing the bulkheads across the hull, adding stringers and then the plywood topsides to the resulting frame. The total effort was about 887 man hours. We often worked on the topsides and the daggerboards (or their cases) on the same day, and did not keep an accurate log of what time was spent on what. More Information Top of Page 
Of Camber, Carlins, Coamings & Coachroofs This is a good section for enlarging your nautical terminology. You will learn the difference between a carlin and a coaming. Here we deck over the hull cabins and install hatches and solar panels. More Information Top of Page 
Fitting Out the Hulls What makes a boat a delight to live on is an efficient and stylish interior and a finish of high quality. Of course a boat has to be structurally strong, be a joy to sail in normal conditions and look after you when the going gets rough. But, if the build quality is poor, the interior will look shoddy, age badly and need constant running repairs. Consequently, a lot of effort has gone into this part of the build. More Information Top of Page 
Bridgedeck Construction
The bridgedeck joining the hulls of the Eclipse catamaran Blue Note. It looks, and is, a major piece of construction. This section shows the construction and fitting of the cross beams, the building of the bridgedeck coachroof and the construction of the cockpit. More Information Top of Page |
Building the Hulls - from Keel to Knuckle
Photographs and comment on strip-planking both hulls from the keel to the knuckle. The total effort was 742 man hours: 361 to get to turning the first hull over, another 299 hours to turn the second hull over, including some time cleaning up and glassing part of the first hull, and a further 82 man-hours to completion. More Information Top of Page 
Constructing the Daggerboards & Cases The construction of the two daggerboards and their cases and the fitting of the daggerboard cases to the hulls. This work took approximately 274 man hours. It is only approximate since we did not keep an accurate log. However, making the daggerboards turned out to be the least time-consuming part; glassing the boards, making the cases and fitting the cases to the hulls took about 75% of the effort. Here are the daggerboards, newly minted from Owen's workshop. As you can he has produced a work of art which deserves an appropriate description. The daggerboards express functional expediency as well as exploring our relationship with universal truths and the repeated patterns of mythology. They at once celebrate and integrate making, neither fetishing nor negating either hand or machine. More Information Top of Page 
Rudders, Steerage and Propulsion The building of the rudders around the rudder stock, the alignment of the rudders to the stock and their shaping to the required profile. More Information Top of Page 
Moving the Hulls This part of the website shows how the hulls were moved. The first move is out of the boat shed and into another shed, where they are being stored prior to transportation to a boat yard. This is a pretty tricky manoeuvre. More Information Top of Page 
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