Looking back at my last post, I decided that I had missed showing an important step. Below, the picture shows the full scale drawing of the bulkheads. Or at least one half of each bulkhead. My process is to lay the drawing on the plywood and check where the centre line and waterline (line drawn… Continue reading More Pricking out
Month: July 2021
knocking out the Bulkheads
Well, hardly knocking them out, but making progress. I noticed that I have 8 bulkheads and a transom to cut out of 6 sheets of plywood. So a quick bit of sizing up was required. Easier to do this on A4 than full size. Phew! Can still be done. I have a new favourite tool… Continue reading knocking out the Bulkheads
Another Delivery of Wood
The Devon Hardwoods lorry arrived at the boat shed and offloaded a pile of Iroko. I spent some time measuring and recording all the pieces so that I can match them to my cutting list. There are two ways of buying timber. You can have the timber yard pick from their stock of rough… Continue reading Another Delivery of Wood