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It took 10 drums of polyester resin and one ton of biaxial fiberglass matt just to get the hull skin fleshed out, before any materials for reinforcment had even been ordered or delivered.

October 2003

September 2003

By October, we had the hull almost ready to float. but we ran into our first problem. At this point the hull was complete enought to be worth something but not complete enought that I could get it out of the yard soon. It was at this point that Sam Stoia took his first action. He raised the yard rent from $600 per month to $200 per day.

He thought that I was al least four months from being able to float Hadar out of his yard. He should have learned just how fast I am from the previous four months. But he didn't. He hoped that I would continue work to complete the boat and he would be "kind" and work with me on the rent until the boat was as complete as he wanted then come down on me for the rent, seize the boat in legal action and complete the samll amount of work to turn it.

I realized what he was doing, after talking to many people and finding that every boat in the marina was a boat he took from unsuspecting people. I decided to decive him. I made it appear that I didn't even have the transom up yet. A boat can't float with out a transom. So that he thought I still had a lot of work to de before I could float her and so he would remain cooperative.

While in fact I stopped work on everything else and builty a hidden transom. Figu5ing out how to hide the transom in plain view was an engineering challenge. When I told him I was launching, he was surprised and asked me "what about your transom?". I told him that he should look again.

His reaction was to call the sheriff and place a trespass order against me. I was forbidden to come on the property. The deputy told me that has done this before and it would not hold up in court but that for now his hands were tied. I would have to set a courty date to get back on the property and pay rent until then.

I contacted several attorneys and found one that for a fee would get me an immediate injunction. Stoia was fuming when I reentered the property escorted by a deputy. I had hired Keys Crane to lift Hadar into the water. However, Stoia would not permit them on the property. Instead Stoia lifted Hadar to the water with his crane and crew. He charged me six thousand dollars. Keys Crane was gonig to charge me several hundred.

We lifted her and put her in the water for almost six months waiting for a space in another yard to open up.

In the Port Largo yard, we put the decks on and began the fairing process.

We did the engine work and the running gear.

Then back in the water to wait for the money we needed to finish Hadar. Six months later we found that money in an investor from California. And it was back to work.

With that money we started the final work on Hadar. While on the water she went from plywood one off molds for the superstructure to wrap around tempered glass windsheilds and fiberglass.

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