About

Welcome ye land lubbers!

If any of you are interested in how the boat was built, then I highly recommend checking out my father's blog catbuild.wordpress.com. This is also a great resource if you despise my laid back writing style, but still want to read about Epic's Adventures (my dad will be posting updates as well, although I’m unsure of how frequent). 

Background 

Sometime around Christmas 2008 my dad was given the green light from my mom to buy a kit (think model toy set but on a huge scale!) from Schionning, an Australian catamaran design company. The kit arrived in May 2009 and my parents found a place to build the boat along the Duwamish River at Delta Marine, a company that specializes in building mega-yachts. Since then, my dad has been hard at work assembling his masterpiece.

Seeing the boat in the water and being able to sail it is truly amazing. A thought that I often wonder and I know many of you wonder as well is, "How in the world did he build that?" My dad had never really built anything very substantial. So something of this magnitude is mind boggling. I remember for a couple years my dad would get home from work, eat dinner, then head out the door to work on his boat for a few hours each evening. Once he retired he would work almost every day and come home around dinner time. The amount of dedication, research, hard work, and persistence that went into this is more than I can even imagine.  

Plus, the pressure on him to make a great finished product was huge; not only monetarily, but also just for pride's sake. When told about the project he was taking on, most people likely thought he was nuts. Shoot, I thought he was nuts. But everyone's leeriness may have fueled motivation. There were times in which the building process did not go well and morale was low. But my dad always kept moving forward and was able to complete Epic more or less on schedule. For that I'm immensely proud and am so excited for the chance to share the first leg of the adventure with him and my mom.

Contact 

If you have any questions about anything feel free to comment on posts directly or shoot me an email me at samueltimpe@gmail.com and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.