At the blog side the stories start from year 2016, as in the stories.
Reading texts in chronological order may be more logical, but the order of course depends on the reader.
Here is few stories from the early years to begin with:
Here you also find a great story of the sailing from Hamburg to Finland.
Weldings done
All weldings done now. Here few pictures from the place near the water tank from where I found the holes.
The first launch of Ariadne

The first Ariadne launch
Here is the first launch as documented by three different movie cameras.
Zinc, zinc
- Zinc in Ariadne*
Found this text at www.boatdesign.net site, talking about zinc and how much should a boat have it:
Bilge work
Quite dusty work to clean bilge with chisel and hammer and locating possible rust problems.
Steel, steel
Found 4mm and 5mm steel from a shop at Raasepori Tiilimäki. Just some welding to do.
Holes, holes - what the h..ll?
What the h..ll? While going thu bilge and possible rusty places I managed to create a hole. First I thought that I made a hole to the integrated water tank, but since I saw daylight thru the hole I understood that there is a hole in the hull…..
Almost winter
Launch at Hamburg
Ariadne on her way to launch place
Ariadne was launched on April 21, 2017 at 8 a.m. after renovating two busy fair weekends.