Redmond, to be precise.
Hello everyone. Don't have a trailer yet, but I'm looking. I am not sure sure if I want to build or buy, but I hear the siren call of construction. I have a pretty-well-equipped woodshop, and have built 3 small stitch-and-glue boats of my own, plus led a group of Boy Scouts building a fleet of 6 more S&G canoes. I've also done by own kitchen project, including scratch-built cabinets. Nothing about building a Teardrop is particulary intimidating.
My only real issue is that, although I've been seeing Teardrops my whole life, I've never camped in one. Does anyone know of rental Teardrops in the East side of King County? The complicating factor is that I'm 75 inches tall, and tend to stretch out when sleeping, so any trailer with less than 80" is just too short, and 84" would be better.
If we do a few rental nights and it works for us, we would probably end buying or building 5x9 or 5x10 Teardrop so that we have room for me, my trophy wife (married 38 years next week), and our stuff. No pets, though. Plan B might be a home-made A-Frame popup, which would probably still fit in the tiny trailer world.
Looking forward to learning, and getting to know you.
Likes: craftsmanship, light weight, clever solutions, good plywood, tight joints, waterproof camping accommodations.
Dislikes: cheap plywood, cheap tools, bad fasteners, mean people, bad beds.
Knows about: I know a fair amount about ply/glass/epoxy composites. I hope to use something like Sketchup to develop curved plywood panels to design a S&G trailer.
Wants to learn: welding.
Rick