Father-son duo use a crane to move the boat they built in their backyard

For the past six years, John Couzens, who owns a roofing business, and his now 26-year-old son, Dan, have been working up to 12 hours a day in their backyard building a beautiful, luxury yacht.

Dubbed Out of the Blue, the yacht is 38 feet long, weighs 8 tons, and is valued at more than $275,000. It has two bedrooms, a working head, and even two showers.

However, the finished yacht was too big to simply wheel out of the backyard, so they had to pay to get a crane to hoist it out over their own home and that of their neighbors. It was quite the sight.

The idea to build the vessel originally came from Couzens’s desire to give his son a project on which to focus his excess energy. Dan used to fix up cars, but he always finished in just a couple of days. The boat was intended to take two years, but six years later, they finally were ready to put it in the water.

Couzens praised his son’s craftsmanship on the boat, calling it a “work of art.”
After putting up with a boat in her backyard for six years, it’s mom who gets to decide the next family project. Something a little closer to land — like a new kitchen.