November 25, 2006

• The German Pirat A while back, one of my former sailing clubmates met a physician who was building a pirat.  That was how I first heard of this kind of sailboat.  (Incidentally, he visited the doctor because he got knocked in the eye with a boom.) I never really investigated the pirat, because I was simply trying to pass my internal medicine shelf exam. Well, after 3 straight months of ward rotations (blech!), I might actually have a little bit of free time in between applying for state licensure ($1000), studying for the board exam ($2000), taking the state jurisprudence exam ($600), and starving myself (to pay for all this crap) to possibly think about boat-building again. The pirat is a plywood and epoxy sailboat, 5 meters in length, originally designed in Germany. Below are some excerpts and pictures from the website (http://www.dauda.at/) of a guy who made a really, really beautiful pirat.  I can’t help but notice that he first found time to make his pirat when his boss let him have 3 months off work.  Wow.  Like I’ll ever get that much time off.  (Maybe when I’m 65. . . .)  It’s really a beautiful sailboat.  Amazing work.  I also particularly enjoyed seeing his breakdown of where his time and money went in the making of it.

  
  

  from http://www.dauda.at/EN/menu.html “. . . The real time budget however was given to me not until July, 2002. I had worked hard for a large computer network project in the airline industry, and had a lot of hours to compensate. Having implanted the idea of a sabbatical into my managers from February on I was given the opportunity to take a 3 month off-time between July and September. Without this, I would most likely never have dared to start works on FLAME. . . .”

  
  Simply gorgeous boat. . . .  I drool!

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