Yesterday, we paid a visit to our local lumberyard and bought three sheets of marine plywood to make the bottom and the planks for the pram. The price was great but the quality was not. Oh, well! Then we tripped off to Portland for our annual visit to the Maine Boatbuilders Show.
Today, fresh from our visit to the show, we went about our own little boat building tasks with new enthusiasm. First, we screwed together the mould station #3 with our newly acquired 1" screws. Then we cut the pieces and put together mould station #1. This is the last of the mould stations. We positioned the cleats that will rest on the building jig and screwed them onto mould station #1 and #3. Those two stations are done and ready to go. Below you see the last screws going into the cleat on the #1 mould station.
Today, fresh from our visit to the show, we went about our own little boat building tasks with new enthusiasm. First, we screwed together the mould station #3 with our newly acquired 1" screws. Then we cut the pieces and put together mould station #1. This is the last of the mould stations. We positioned the cleats that will rest on the building jig and screwed them onto mould station #1 and #3. Those two stations are done and ready to go. Below you see the last screws going into the cleat on the #1 mould station.
Next we cut the angled edges of the laminated midships mould. This was not something that either of us really wanted to do for fear of messing the thing up. It came out pretty well despite of our misgivings. Then we laid it out on the plans and attached the cross cleat to it where it will sit on the building jig. There is still some sanding to do on the laminated mould as we cut it fat rather than thin to allow for screwups. I'll get the sanding done sometime this week.
Next we put the 3/8" Marine plywood that we bought yesterday on two sawhorses and lined out the bottom piece of the boat. We drew a center line and then marked the points designated on the plans for the curved sides of the bottom. Then one of us held one of our 1/8" strips left over from our laminating project up to the points on the curve and the other drew the curved line. This gave us a nice shaped bottom piece. Now all we have to do is cut it out! The centerboard housing and the rudder also come out of this piece of plywood, so we will probably lay them out and cut them too.
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