June 2010 - Boat


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Center line drawn


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Martha ready to go fishing


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Inlet Navigation delivering plywood for boat hull


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Inlet Navigation delivering plywood for boat hull


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Greg and Scott moving plywood to net loft


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Greg and Scott moving plywood to net loft


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Greg and Scott moving plywood to net loft


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Scott and Greg


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Scott and Greg


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Plywood ready for use


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Working on frame 2


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Frames 1 to 8 up, ready to test for fairness


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Because of the height of our building platform,
the stem forepeak is below the floor.
Peter is cutting a hole to accomodate it.


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100606_5116m


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"Stem hole"


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Frames 1 through 8. Transom to come.


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Frame 1 (foreground)


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100607_5125m


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Two 3/4" plywood boards will be epoxy glued
face to face to make the 1-1/2" transom


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Transom boards glued and weighted flat


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Nice router table given to us by John


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Softening the edge of a frame


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Sawing transom to finished height


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Sawing transom side


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Transom sawn to final dimensions


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Transom waiting for epoxy


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Epoxying transom


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Frames waiting to be glued


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Applying epoxy glue to a frame


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Sanding frames before another coat of epoxy


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All frames sanded, washed and drying


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Martha tipping third layer of epoxy


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Martha tipping third layer of epoxy


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Washing yet another epoxyed frame


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Attaching keelson support


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Transom with a layer of fiberglassed cloth
and epoxy


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Trimming excess cloth from transom


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Preparing keelson support blocks


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Frames with keelson support blocks installed


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Foreground and top, keelson support blocks
installed. Glued dowels will be cut off.


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Checking to see if transom is on center


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Cutting notch for keelson


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Scribing a line on the stem board


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Stem board and frames


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Keelson boards set up for epoxying


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Progress!
Attaching first keelson board to frames


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Attaching keelson board to stem


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Attaching end of second layer of keelson.
It is epoxy glued and screwed to the first board.