The 700 kgs included 2 people and their gear (200 kgs), ready to sail, plus a healthy 25 kgs allowance for screw ups, changes and surprises.  

Weighed it today and the hulls, beams, stub mast, one rudder and the lifting straps (~10 kgs) weigh 380 kgs.  Another 25 for the other rudder, tillers and extensions, ~15 for the tramp, 55 for the mast and boom, 20 for the sail and battens and 15 for the winch, control lines, etc.  About 500 all up.  There is easily 25 kgs of screw ups and changes, so I am pretty happy with the numbers.  Not quite so happy with the size of the boat and how little there is keeping it in one piece.  The testing is going to be fun.

Steinar and I have spent the last 2 weeks putting it together.  Pretty short work days as I had to do the school run mornings and afternoons, and lunch tended to stretch out as we would start discussing ideas for harrys.   Start with something completely off the wall (build methods, wings, foils, rudders, power cats to name a few), then work out how to make it work.  Most enjoyable, especially compared to bogging, sanding and painting.

The work list included setting the hulls up level, bonding the beams in the lee hull, cutting and glassing the inserts in the ww hull, bonding on the ww hull beam hold downs, installing the rudder mounts (multiple screw ups and they still are not right, but will do to get going), trampoline, stub mast and a few other bits and pieces, then painting any exposed resin.  The finish is decidedly work boat, but given that there are bound to be alterations,  possibly some breakages and that I don't mind what the finish is like above the waterline there is no point in putting in hours of hard work making it shiny.   Plus, the 25 kgs of bog and primer required for a glossy 2 pack polyurethane finish is 5% of the boat weight.

Tomorrow/Saturday we take it apart, wheel the components 50m to a narrow marina walkway, hopefully get it down the walkway at high tide when the slope is smallest, launch the long hull, insert the beams while it is alongside, tie on the ww hull and the tramp and tow it a couple of miles to where we can anchor it.  The sailmaker has nearly finished the sail above the top reef (12 sqm/130 sq') so we will use this on the lowest section of the telescoping mast to make sure the trackless system, canting mast and halyard lock work.  Once they do, the rest of the sail will be built, the telescoping sorted out and testing begins in earnest.    

There is still time to estimate how fast Bucket List will sail and win it for a day, or $500.  see http://harryproa.com/?p=1837

There will be a video of the weighing on the harryproa web page and facebook in the near future.   Should also be some launching pics after the weekend.

Tim,

The $50 kite is a Gaastra Phoenix, 17.5 sqm.  12 years old and I have spent an extra 100 bucks replacing the valves.  It has 2 leading edge tubes to give a slightly parabolic section and only the 4 strings, no bridles, so it needs to be pumped pretty hard to stop the tips coming together.  We will give it a go on BL before Steinar goes home, just to see what happens, but pump up kites are too cumbersome for boats so it will end up as my light air kite surfing kite.

The guy who bought the German Solitarry has fitted it out for kiting and is making progress.  see https://vimeo.com/204722661 for an early trial.