Fruitful Efforts
Mate measures locally sourced teak, which have become the structural posts for the shipbuilding hangar here at the shipyard.
Costa Rica has made monkeys of us all! Any of us can be found hanging off tall ladders; swinging from bamboo scaffolding; perched on the rafters of the woodshed or climbing up a fruit tree to gorge on fruit.
Besides the constant buzz of insects, there is always a buzz of activity at the shipyard. Sometimes we work quite like a team of ants hoisting heavy pieces of teak and tubu way above our heads. Not unlike the leaf cutter ants who are building motorways throughout the area. It took us under two weeks to erect the giant woodshed which is now being dwarfed by the hanger standing next to it like a sculpture and is our current project to complete.
Even though work has not yet begun on Ceiba herself, as we construct the hanger around where she will be, it feels as though she has already filled the space.
Eleanora and Mate square up round teak posts with the chainsaw.
The woodwork here is quite different to the work that we have done back in Scotland and Hungary. We are trying our hand at the art of chainsaw joinery and working with branches I’d know others to discard. Lynx has an amazing eye for these things. He’s able to see how incredibly awkward and wiggly pieces of wood can fit together as if they had grown that way. And joining them together with old re-bar to make strong structures that look like strange trees growing up out of the shipyard soil.
We have been working only with wood in its round form. This has been refreshing for both of us, as joinery back in Europe too often feels stuck in squares and lines. These last two months have sparked new ideas for woodworking and carpentry. Along with using these organic shapes of wood goes the practice of “eye-balling”. Which comes in handy when nothing you are working with is straight! This takes practice and becomes more of an art form than a science. As a result the things we are building are unique with a character that reflects the weird and wonderful ways in which they have been built.
Lynx and Mate hoist a newly sewn section of canvas roof for the shipbuilding structure in the early morning.
A portrait of Eleanora sitting atop a foundational post, which will soon support the weight of the keel of Ceiba. She is shaded by the canvas roof. Costa Rican seamstresses built each section of the canvas roof here at the shipyard using our 1958 Singer Sewing Machine, donated and driven down by the Payne family of Arizona.
We will be leaving here in under a month but I am very excited to see how Ceiba will take form in the light of the work we have been doing these past two months and we look forward to returning to give a hand with further work in the near future!
Pura Vida!
A view of the completed tin roof over what will soon be our lofting floor. All of the patterns for the elements of Ceiba will be drawn - or lofted - full scale under this roof. Thank you to Eleanora & Mate for all of their help completing these large-scale tasks.
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Gyümölcsöző Erőfeszítés
Joinery in Europe is different from Costa Rica, as Eleanore and Maté experienced. They brought much to the shipyard, but also learning new skills and discovering different ways to use materials is a gift they took with them.
Mate measures locally sourced teak, which have become the structural posts for the shipbuilding hangar here at the shipyard.
Costa Rica majmokká változtatta mindnyájunk. Bár melyikünk megtalálható egy magas létra tetején, bambusz állványon, tető gerendán egyensúlyozva vagy valamelyik gyümölcs fáról lógva.
A rovarok állandó zümmögése mellet mi is egész álló nap berregtetjük a lánc fűrészt, ami egy pár másodpercre elnémítja a szúnyogok állandó zaját. Hasonlóképpen a levél vágó hangyákhoz akik autópályákat építenek keresztül kasul a telken, mi is egész nap fel alá rohangálunk levél helyet óriás tabu és teek fával.
Csupán két hét alatt meg építettünk egy hatalmas műhelyt és fa tárolót, ami mára aprónak tűnik az óriás hangár mellett amelyben a hajó építése fog megkezdődni egy két hónapon belül. Habar Ceiba építése még nem kezdődött meg a hangár mar érezteti a jelenlétét.
Eleanora and Mate square up round teak posts with the chainsaw.
A fával való munka egy új utat nyitott meg számunkra ami egész más az ez előtti ács, asztalos munkákhoz amiket korábban Skóciában vagy Magyar országban csináltunk. Minden illesztést lán fűrésszel csinálunk és olyan fával, ágakkal dolgozunk amit más nem is látna használhatónak építkezés céljából, pedig ugyan azt az eredményt el lehet érni vele némelyik esetben mint tökéletesen egyenes legyalult gerendákkal. Lynxnek a fő asztalosnak a telken, nagyon jó szeme van girbe gurba ágaknak az össze illesztésében olyan módon hogy a végeredmény úgy néz ki mintha az építmény egy élő fa formájában nőne ki a földből.
Az elmúlt két hónapban csak kerek, vágatlan fával dolgoztunk és gyakoroltuk a szemünk használatát matek helyett, amely elég hasznossá válik amikor semelyik munka darab sem egyenes. Ellentétben a korábbi munkáinktól, amely gyakran talán túlságosan a derékszög és vonalzó körül forgott és új ötletekkel töltötte meg a koponyánkat. Az építkezés ez úton inkább művészethez hasonul és teljesen egyénivé válik.
Lynx and Mate hoist a newly sewn section of canvas roof for the shipbuilding structure in the early morning.
A portrait of Eleanora sitting atop a foundational post, which will soon support the weight of the keel of Ceiba. She is shaded by the canvas roof. Costa Rican seamstresses built each section of the canvas roof here at the shipyard using our 1958 Singer Sewing Machine, donated and driven down by the Payne family of Arizona.
Egy hónap múlva tovább vezet az utunk de kíváncsian varjuk a fejleményeket, hogyan épül meg a barka és mindenképp szeretnénk vissza jönni és segíteni az építkezés valamely stádiumában.
Pura Vida!
A view of the completed tin roof over what will soon be our lofting floor. All of the patterns for the elements of Ceiba will be drawn - or lofted - full scale under this roof. Thank you to Eleanora & Mate for all of their help completing these large-scale tasks.
Our project is funded entirely by people like you becoming shareholders through investing. Support the change you wish to see in the world.
info@sailcargo.org