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Moving in Today!

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We’ve been living in Panama (Bocas Del Toro Region, North/Caribbean side) since the beginning of February 2014. Jaimie and I decided we needed amobile house, so he started building a houseboat 28 July, 2014. It is a 3 floor, 40ft long, 26ft wide solar powered catamaran (custom built/designed by Jaimie Mantzel). Jaimie built this boat all by himself, no helpers or workers to assist. He used minimal electrical tools. We started moving in today! There are still a lot of things that need to be added for comfort and organisation of our stuff, but we’ve got the basics and J is building and painting and sanding as I type this post. If you’d like tomsee the videos of building the boat as it progressed, visit Jaimie’s YouTube Channel

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Houseboat 8 month Update

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Bathroom. No roof or shower yet.

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One of Two 200 gallon fresh water tanks. Charge controller on wall.

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Interior Center

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Half of the solar panels installed

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Sink and a countertop

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Interior center floors

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Door and back window covers that flip up to create shade over window.
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Stairs to upper floor

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Removable shelves

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Handmade Fiberglass Hinges

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Travel boat
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The Second Pontoon!!

For the past two days J has been hard at work on the second pontoon!! He was able to complete the first section of the second pontoon today. Tomorrow he’ll create the second section. Weather permitting.

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The First Pontoon…lots of drying, for no reason.

It may seem like every post begins with me telling you about the rain. Well today was the most and longest amount of all since Sunday. Seriously it would stop raining long enough for J to consider going out to work on the boat. Then as soon as he dried it off and started to go get the supplies….it began raining again. So…yeah…a whole lot of wiping off for no reason at all.

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The First Pontoon…gets fiberglassed.

Rain! Rain? Rain…

Well the morning saw lots of rain, J was able to work on the design on paper for a bit. Now the boat design is wider in the middle! The rain cleared up by the afternoon with enough time to slap on the first two layers of fiberglass and resin on the second section of the first pontoon!! Now the entire pontoon is waterproof on the outside. Hooray!