craft endra

To float… and we all do every once a while… we best leech on a piece of wood, I turn mine into a sailing boat.

Last winter

Endra has defently the aspects of an nice sailing boat, and yet with her rolling sheer and her raking transom she differs much from all the able Sailing Yachts…

Set sails

I took off… hoisted sails… why you haven’t seen me quite a while… yes a chapter of endras journey has been closed… yeah almost… the way to her starting…

Erection

When you raise the mast of a boat, you know, a project has almost come to an end — I have built Endra for the last 4 Years in…

Outpost

The day has come when Endra is leaving her nest forever. A good bye to that narrow townhouse, just wide enough to shelter the construction of a boat. She…

direction

It‘s time to look ahead and see, when and where we‘re gonna set sails.First let me take you to the early days of the building process and the efforts…

Shine

Christmas Eve and those who are longing for enlightenment in these grim, cold day of December are busy to ad everywhere LEDs and other kind of little Lights. And…

A mast and a bed

There’re two hearts pounding in my chest… on is full of love with my hometown, but this town is set by the river and he’s calling me to lift…

Helmsman compartment

In every concept you have to mind that there is no straight floor, wall or anything straight at all, what leaves you with a certain liberty to design seats,…

Furnishing

To keep it as simple and minimalistic as possible, was my motto all the way. And mean to stick to it. But a few pieces of comfort and system…

Maiden voyage

It’s overwhelming. When you take distance from the shore. You’re gliding over water. It’s been years I understood this liberating feeling as you lift anchor, but now in my…

(Pre)launch

Three years after the first wooden chip fell, the day has come to let her to water. And I must say, all confidence which carried me through the building…

Drive unit

She is a sailing boat, she is a river boat, she is drifting and driven. It’s just a backup in calms, a short cut by unfortunat winds and yet…

The propeller

I got to understand the whole drive system. How the engine‘s momentum is transferred from gear to prop shaft. How this is pivoted through the deadwood. Some might remember…

Waterline

Some say, it’s a pity to see the grain disappearing with all the joinery . Well it is, and that is the beautiful part of boatbuilding, to see things nobody…

Coating and coaming

As there are still many tasks ahead to get Endra ready to float, her appearance finds her final shape. It’s time to seal and paint the hull. A tiresome…

Es ist ein Fehler aufgetreten. Bitte aktualisiere die Seite und/oder versuche es erneut.

Abonnieren

Gib deine E-Mail-Adresse ein, um Updates zu erhalten.

If you would like to support my journey, there are several ways you can do so.

Become a Patron
I have set up a Patron account, where people can sign up to become one of my Patrons and to donate a set amount to me, large or small, every time I release a video. Become a Patron HERE.

Share
It would really help if you could share and subscribe to my videos on Facebook and YouTube, and tell your friends and colleagues about the project.
Subscribe HERE.