Thursday morning - 10 minutes before I leave for work. Our boat is a Golant Gaffer, designed by Roger Dongray of England, she is 6 metres over the deck or 7 and a half metres over the spars. She is a long keel gaff cutter, I think she is based on west of England working boat designs. We built her over a period of three years, in our garage at home. She is constructed of marine ply frames and longitudonals, that lock together to give her her form, over which strips of western red cedar are fixed, and layered with glass cloth set in epoxy. The plans are very informative, with frame patterns in full size, and a detailed schedule of work. I would have struggled without all this detal, not having built so complex a machine before. As it was, she went together without too many hitches, except for some losses of patience on my part, which meant Lelia did some of the more unpleasant bits, like fairing and sanding deadwod and keel while lying on the garage floor, on the concrete, in the cold .. She has a few bits of varnished wood on the outside, and finished plain inside. She carries about 240 square feet of sail, and although she was designed for an inboard, we left that out, and have a 4hp outboard hung on the transom. The lead keel is about 40 kg heavier to compensate. We launched her on 7 March 2003, and in the working boat tradition, named her after the spouses of the builders - "J&L". She is a very capable little boat, teaching us to sail and never giving us a fright. We use her for cruising around Port Phillip Bay. Off to work now - yippee.