A better burden can no man bear
on the way than his mother wit;
'tis the refuge of the poor, and richer it seems
than wealth in a world untried.
Håvamål 10
Wisdom for Wanderers and Counsel to Guests
Picture Gallery
- Building the Boat Shed
- Lofting, Plans and Templates
- Building the Keel
- Keel Raising Ceremony
- Hull Planks
- Building the Hull
- Unveiling Ceremony
- Launching Ceremony
- Sailing "Munin"
- Building the Oars
- Building the Shields
- Promoting the Project
- "Munin" Haulout May 2009
Other "Munin" Pictures
- "Munin's" Own Site
- Viking Art
- Flickr - Munin Search
- Flickr - Foxtongue
- Flickr - Russel Dock
- Venture Vancouver 1
- Venture Vancouver 2
About
"Many a sweet maid when one knows her mind
is fickle found towards men:
I proved it well when that prudent lass
I sought to lead astray:
shrewd maid, she sought me with every insult
and I won therewith no wife."
Håvamål 100
Odin's Love Quests
About the Boat Shed
W e decided to build a 24'x64' boat shed with 8' walls and a gently peaked roof. That gave us some space around the ship given a beam less than 10' and a length of 40'.
After having looked at a number of options, we concluded that one of our greatest assets is free labour. (Ah, the joys of volunteer work…)
Other options like buying a tent or even a greenhouse frame was more than we felt we should spend.
The solution for us was simply to go out and buy a load of recycled 2"4"s other material and throw up our own structure.
We've laid the floor out with stringers on 4 foot centres. Then we laid stringers on top of that on 2 foot centres. That consumed pretty much 1,900 feet of 2"4"s at $.15 per foot.
We scrounged 30 sheets of plywood and bought 20 recycled ones at a great price. That did the floor. The Scandinavian Centre gave us 20 good sheets of plywood left over from some other project. These we laid down in one section to make a lofting surface.
One of the members led us to a great stack of OSB boards (oriented strand boards, also known as wafer board) slated for the dump. They were ours for the taking and did fine for siding. At the same source, we also picked up 64 rough 8 foot lengths of 2"x4"s. That's a good part of the wall frames right there.
For the roof trusses we need three 14' 2"x4"s and plywood gussets (i.e., per truss). We'll need 11 of these, roughly on 6' centres. So we went back and bought another 1,100 feet of recycled 2"x4"s for this and the rest of the wall frames. We may have some to spare, but at only $.10 a foot for this load, we're not too worried.
We've found a tarp manufacturer who will custom make a white 30'x65' tarp for us at a reasonable price. That'll take care of the roofing.
From a liquidator outlet we picked up some cheap green stain and, presto, we blended in with the greenery.
Bottom line: we probably put up this shed for less than CAD $1,000 using only recycled wood. And that was way ahead of budget.
A small detail we didn't have in the budget was this thing called a building permit. The Burnaby City building department came calling with some pointed questions about what was going up on the property.
