My Father's Terrible Boat

Synopsis

Deb's father spent every Saturday of her childhood in the barn with the boat, and every Sunday explaining what he had learned that would need to be undone the following week. He died in February. He left her the house, which she sold, and the barn, which she did not, and the boat, which has never been in water and does not fit through the barn door. The barn goes to auction in eight weeks. Deb has driven out twice now with a tape measure, and come home both times without having measured anything.

Who this is about

Deb inherits her father's thirty-year boatbuilding project, a hull in a barn he worked on every Saturday of her childhood and never finished.

What goes wrong

The barn goes to auction in eight weeks, and the boat does not fit through the barn door.

What's at stake

Everything her father never said to her is somewhere in that hull, and she has eight weeks to find out where.

Why it keeps going

Each episode she discovers one more thing he did wrong on purpose, which was the only reliable way to keep it unfinished.

Takeaway

Some men build a thing for thirty years precisely so they never have to learn whether it floats.

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