04/07/2020

So just to let everyone know , I did finish the build and I have video and pictures but the event was canceled or I should say postponed. I dont know if the ship will ever see the light of day and it was taking up so much space in my office and house that i had to put it all in storage. I dont want to spoil the suprize of this massie cardboard ship so I dont want to post the pics here except one. The one of it being in the storage unit. Well lets hope this virus thing goes away soon ... I need my stoage unit back!

02/01/2020

In my best pirate voice "Good morning ye scallywags, A tall tale I have for ye." Well not so much as good as it sounded in my head. Anyway my wife at the school she works each year they have this cultural fair where each grade picks a country and represents that country. They decorate their classroom and also put a short skit. Thi event is lots of fun for the kids and the teachers, the kids look forward to this event each year. So last year I built my wife a huge castle out of cardboard, It took up most of her classroom. Took me a little over a month to design, build and decorate it, I have to admit I had a lot of fun doing this by the way. So this year her topic is Great Explorers and we discussed that we want to build an explorer ship I wanted to build a pirate ship ye why I heard pirate voices in my head. She said no! So it is going to be a huge explorer ship with some hints of piracy. I started off with just a simple floor plan sketch of the ship this grew to all the details you see in the image gallery. Today we will measure the room and got the exact size of the build. Well, now it is time for the fun part, to build a cardboard explorer(pirate) ship. Yo Ho!