{"id":103,"date":"2010-05-03T14:10:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T18:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/?p=103"},"modified":"2026-01-28T14:57:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T18:57:04","slug":"almost-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/almost-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost Finished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our skiff is almost complete!<br \/>\nWe are waiting on the new adjustable height windshield &amp; mount, but besides that we only need to install the motor and cables and a few other small things.<br \/>\nWe were pulled off skiff building for a good part of the spring, filling orders for our other business, PT Foils, but now we are full speed finishing our skiff and getting ready for a cross country tour.\u00a0 We are going to the Wooden Boat show in Mystic, Connecticut ( http:\/\/www.thewoodenboatshow.com\/ ) in late June and then touring New England. E-mail us if you want to see the boat.<br \/>\nWe have also scheduled having our boat tested by the Coast Guard at their testing facility in Maryland. This testing involves filling the boat with water and testing for flotation and stability when flooded, among other things. The testing we are doing is voluntary but seems important on a boat we are promoting for it\u2019s seaworthiness.<\/p>\n<p>There are many details on the skiff since the last blog post, but soon it will be out of the shop and we will be able to take good photographs. Our shop has 7\u2019 ceilings and while it is easy to heat, the light for photos is not so good.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, we just sold a kit to Tim Smyth. Tim was one of the two lead builders of the BMW Oracle trimaran that just won the America\u2019s cup. Tim\u2019s<br \/>\nP T Skiff kit is on it\u2019s way to New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>We weighed our boat recently. 340 pounds without the engine and some other things.<br \/>\nThis is about the same as the first prototype.<br \/>\nWe chose the same engine that the first prototype had, a Yamaha 20.<br \/>\nOur first kit buyer, J. Brandt chose the Evinrude E-TEC 25. Comparing performance will be very interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Following are a few photos of the boat as it looks right now.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_104\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-104\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-104\" title=\"DSC04659\" src=\"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC04659-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"PT Skiff painted with mahogany rub rail\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC04659-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC04659.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-104\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PT Skiff painted with mahogany rub rail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-105\" title=\"DSC04672\" src=\"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC04672-300x138.jpg\" alt=\"DSC04672\" width=\"300\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC04672-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC04672.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-106\" title=\"DSC04674\" src=\"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC04674-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"DSC04674\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC04674-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC04674.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-107\" title=\"DSC04675\" src=\"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC04675-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"DSC04675\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC04675-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC04675.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-108\" title=\"DSC04676\" src=\"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC04676-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"DSC04676\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC04676-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC04676.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our skiff is almost complete! We are waiting on the new adjustable height windshield &amp; mount, but besides that we only need to install the motor and cables and a few other small things. We were pulled off skiff building for a good part of the spring, filling orders for our other business, PT Foils,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,44,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-pt-skiff-construction","category-pt_skiff_2_progress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4034,"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/4034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}