Preparation before getting on board

The tasks listed on this page are those defined by the 2019 fall schedule. Their status has been updated as they changed, and some of the activities are the subject of dedicated posts.

Papers of the boat

  • ✔️ Gather documents & build files
  • ✔️ Francization with customs
  • ✔️ Registration with maritime affairs
  • ✔️ Insurance

Finish the workshop

  • ✔️ Finish the materials compartment
  • ✔️ Discard the unsold
  • ✔️ Finish the ceiling: sand, putty, sand, tape, paint
  • ✔️ Model making: sorting materials, repackaging engines and radios, making aircraft storage protections, selling the “Super Sportster”
  • ✔️ Finish the electrical wiring
  • ✔️ Cleaning
  • ✔️ Final storage

Start my professional activity

  • ✔️ Creation of the company with the URSSAF
  • ✔️ Apply for an intra-community VAT number
  • ✔️ Make contact with entrepreneurs already in activity, find networks
  • ✔️ Start, update my CV and portfolio
  • ⬜️ Insurance
  • ✔️ Find out about aids compared to low incomes at the beginning of the activity (threshold or declining balance?)
  • ⬜️ Calculate income taxes based on several hypothetical turnovers

Preparation of the testing program of Øya

  • ✔️ Possible routes
  • ⬜️ Budgeting of each of them (port rates etc)
  • ✔️ How to live in Lorient before launching?
  • ✔️ Prepare the equipment and find out how to bring it on the boat.
  • ⬜️ Preparation of personal insurance for the trip

Welding learning

  • ✔️ Theoretical learning about steel and its welding methods
  • ✔️ Acquisition of the equipment corresponding to the chosen method
  • ✔️ Practice with steel falls for exercise

Learning the manipulation of laminates

  • ⬜️ Design of a rear fender for the Honda Shadow
  • ⬜️ Listing of needed materials and budgeting
  • ⬜️ Achievement (if budget allows)
  • ⬜️ Repeat with the battery cover which is more complex

Preparation of Øya on the ground

  • ✔️ Fine inspection of the yacht
  • ✔️ General reverse engineering
  • ✔️ Change the anodes
  • ✔️ Stop and treat the rust, see “january, a bit busy
  • ✔️ Put the engine back into service, see “last rush before launching
  • ✔️ Get Øya’s remaining belonings from the previous owner
  • ⬜️ Rebuild the whole gaz system
  • ✔️ Fitting-out (see Wikipedia)
  • ✔️ Careenage of hull, anti-fouling painting, see “last rush before launching“.

Various

  • ✔️ Finalize my sailing lessons for the 2020 season