Our project engineer has completed the initial feasibility study of the Mon Tiki design and it’s mostly very good news! The scantlings (that’s boat talk for the size of the lumber used) look good, the distance between the bulkheads looks good, everything about the structure of the boat looks good. The carrying capacity looks excellent. We had…
My sister is doing graduate work on a group of surfer-musicians who maintain a more than seventy-year-old music tradition on the beach at San Onofre, California. She’s an amazingly talented writer, with incredible insight into what she calls “oceanophelia”; something that all of us in Montauk understand, even if we’ve never put a name to…
I build my first boat, a Bolger Teal, the Summer my wife was pregnant with Maggie. It’s a simple boat to build; all straight cuts and easy to assemble. Three sheets of plywood, a few 2x4s and a couple of weekends on the patio. When I’d take it sailing, people would ask “Did you build…
Hello, and welcome to the website for the Mon Tiki Project. Let me tell you a little about myself. My name is David Ryan and I’m the captain and owner of Sailing Montauk, a charter sailing company in Montauk, NY. Mon Tiki is the next step in the evolution of our company; a keel up build…