loveweary11 Posted April 6, 2015 Posted April 6, 2015 I rarely ask business advice, but this is a mixture of business and personal. I have a new boat that's nearly done on the outside and partly done on the inside. The outside will be done in June. This summer, I need to go to NY with it, so I can participate on a daily basis at a company that I let decay while in FL wrapping up the boat build. I'll have to keep the boat outside of the city... way outside... and go into the city for like 4 days in a row each week. I wanted to finish the whole interior of the boat myself, but I'll barely have weekends even to do that...and it's a full time job. One option is to keep one of my employees on and give him one of the 4 bedrooms on the boat. Since it's not done insdide, it'll be dusty and a lot of construction going on. A small part of the inside is done. A kitchen (not using nautical terms for clarity) and my bedroom. Since it's designed to act as a hotel on the water, my bedroom and the kitchen are in the same spot, away from the rest of the boat's main areas and rooms. SO... if i have this employee stay on, I'll have a roommate part of the week that has to come in my room all the time to use the kitchen. I like privacy. I have lot of girls over. I need my space. BUT...he could work on the boat 5 days a week, speeding up the end of the project immensely, though not doing as good a job as I would. But I need to attend to the NY business to keep he money flowing (it's a trickle right now)... burning savings. Should I suck it up and have a roommate to get things moving faster? A roommate that needs to come in my room a lot? Or should I be at peace and just take longer to finish the boat myself?
whichwayisup Posted April 7, 2015 Posted April 7, 2015 Finish the boat yourself, you're so passionate about it and this way you're at peace and also you're in control. If you let someone else finish it for you it may not be to your liking!
Author loveweary11 Posted April 7, 2015 Author Posted April 7, 2015 Finish the boat yourself, you're so passionate about it and this way you're at peace and also you're in control. If you let someone else finish it for you it may not be to your liking! Very good point. I dwell on a couple of mistakes some of my boat building employees made constantly. 2 of them are permanent, cosmetic defects. One is an angle of the front windows (like a windshield has an angle). The other is a set of stairs where the risers (vertical faces of stairs) arent vertical. Then, let's not forget where the same guy screwed up the bows and incorrectly mixed epoxy, costing me about $4000 in fixes. The boat is my real career, which has been on hold a few years during its build. The NYC business is a side thing which I'll close once the boat is ready for charter guests.
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