Episode 3 — Launching a Homemade Catamaran
After two years of almost nothing,
the boat was finally real.
When the project started,
it felt impossible.
A homemade catamaran.
Built from scratch.
No shipyard.
No official plans.
Just a dusty workshop with a dirt floor
and a man who refused to quit.
Slowly, piece by piece,
the boat began to take shape.
Fiberglass hulls.
Engines.
Structure.
At some point, it stopped looking like a project
and started looking like an actual boat.
A big one.
About fifty feet long.
I still remember the day it was finally launched.
Or more accurately…
the night.
It happened in the middle of the night.
Our kids were still small,
so I wasn’t there when it happened.
But the story became part of our family history.
The boat was moved quietly
toward the water.
A homemade catamaran
built in a simple workshop.
And then, for the first time,
it touched the water.
It floated.
That moment changed everything.
What had once been an impossible idea
was suddenly real.
A boat that didn’t exist two years earlier
was now floating in the Broadwater.
Looking back now,
I realize something important.
Building the boat was never just about the boat.
It was about stubbornness.
The kind of stubbornness that refuses to stop
even when the numbers don’t make sense.
And somehow,
that stubbornness turned a crazy idea
into the place we now call home.
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