When I looked out of the shed door, Sidney was outside checking on progress. He muttered something about me being so slow. I turned around to remonstrate, but he had already gone.
I am working as fast as I can Sidney!
It is slow work. Adding one strip takes me about an hour and a half. However, strip by strip, the shape of the hull is beginning to appear. Photographs don’t show the three dimensional curved surface very well, but the one below gives an impression.
![](https://hpwd.co.uk/theslowboatbuilder/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/img_3952-scaled.jpg)
![](https://hpwd.co.uk/theslowboatbuilder/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/img_3959-scaled.jpg)
![](https://hpwd.co.uk/theslowboatbuilder/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/img_3960-scaled.jpg)
![](https://hpwd.co.uk/theslowboatbuilder/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/img_3940-scaled.jpg)