Saturday, January 31, 2015
Decisions decisions
What do you do when you have a big garage, a lot of plywood and its summer break?
...
You build a boat! :)
Welcome to my boat-building blog. Dad and I decided to try our hands (all three of them - more on that later) at building a sailboat. We chose a Devlin-designed "Eider." The Eider is a 17-foot gaff-rig sailboat with a little cabin. At least it will be. At the moment, it looks like this:
Dad, posing next to the plywood. Right hand in a splint. Dad had a little argument with the table saw and needs some time for his hand to heal. Poor guy. The good news is, it should heal completely.
Step 1 is called "scarfing" (which sounds curiously like what it makes you want to do after youve been leaning over plywood with a planer for two hours). It means that you make these stair steps smoothly graded so you can glue the plywood together to make longer pieces!
Dan with the planer, Dad providing his wisdom and posing so nicely for the camera.
Dan with the planer, Dad providing his wisdom and posing so nicely for the camera.More to come! I cant promise how fast it will go... but surely SOMETHING will happen!
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