Usop hammering some nails at the rear part of the boat.
Usop, our boat builder, once again impressed us with another masterpiece.
But, it still isn't totally complete. Usop's part was only to make the structure and to put all the wooden pieces together. It still lacked the engine, final coating of marine paint, ropes, and other peripheral equipment. So, it has to be transferred to Ladol, Alabel for the finishing touches.
Of course, we can't travel the boat by land and, since it cannot float by itself this time, it needs to pulled by another boat. But before that, our newly constructed boat first needs to be pushed on the shoreline.
The boat was very heavy and I'm pretty sure that it weighed over a ton. Ramil hired 10 strong men to push our boat to the shore with the help of one of the earliest machinery developed in the history - log rollers. If they haven't used log rollers to move the boat, their combined strength wouldn't be enough to displace it over ten or fifteen meters.
Pushing a boat with the aid of log rollers. Photo Credits
The boat that was tasked to pull the newly constructed boat was the JWDR fishing boat. It was smaller in size but it's strength cannot be underestimated. The ropes were attached and the two boats slowly sailed the distance of about 37 miles for almost half day. The weather was very favorable all day long and the boat was successfully transferred to its new location.
Atan, the one we chose to become the captain of our new fishing boat, and his crew wasted no single moment from the day the boat arrived in Ladol. They started painting it, mounted the engine, attached the ropes, and did other necessary things. When we visited it again, this is how the boat looked like:
Our boat in Ladol, Alabel.
A view from the side of the boat.
Me standing on its side.
Me sitting on the Pilot house.
Ramil checking the icebox.
Our boat painted with brown, yellow, and orange.
A view from the rear of the boat.
Surely, seeing this development on our boat made my day...
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