February 2022: Hull 181, things are getting real!

Midway in February we received our registered hull number. We speculated about which number it was going to be: maybe our house number 196? It should be a number close to it! We ended up with 181, a nice palindromic sequence, we were quite satisfied with it! 

Once we received our number, we ordered the CNC cut building kit and the additional wood elements at the Kolibri-jachtbouw company. 

So... Are we really going to build our own Class Globe 5.80? YES! 

In our heads we already saw our boat surfing the waves and our children were already busy choosing color schemes for it. In reality, we had no clue what to expect: can we pull this actually off? How difficult is it? How long will it take? Will it be strong enough? And… where are we even going to build this thing?

To be continued!



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