please keep going with the photos! (to reduce your upload time, compress the photos in advance. depending on the application a standard .jpg compression to something like 70% may reduce the file size to a third almost without any visual effect.)

utnik

No, no, no - you are not writing into a void.  I also follow the thread - though the really, really good bit is going to be when the boat is launched and sailing!

Don't worry, Malcolm.  I suspect you'll be in the water long before I am.  As well as being pretty slow anyway, there is a constant stream of distractions and other essential tasks that take me off the job.

Tim, you are quite right.  Planking the bow is going to be entertaining and I suspect I may need to do it with 2 layers of 6mm rather than one of 12mm.  I was talking to a  friend about it recently, who is also building in plywood, and he reckoned the same.  But he's also anticipating a similar issue with this boat.  We agreed that epoxy is a Good Thing!

Looking good, I feel like I am in a race, which I am sure to lose! Befur's  steelwork to support the partners/ tabernacle got trial fitted today, confirming that I have not lost all my welding skills (yes I know that steel in a wooden boat is somewhat Infra dig,  but slicing the cabin in two with a mast trunk for a keel stepped mast was too debilitating an idea).

I'll try to post a pic here and on http://sy-befur.co.uk :-)

Today, I looked into the SibLim boatshed to see how things were going on (and also to bludge a piece of plywood to repair the rot that I've just found in Tystie's cockpit) and found that the two parts of the transom have been glued to the skegs, the bow transom is being built up ( three layers of 6mm plywood being needed before the notches for the main chine logs, the topsides stringers and the sheer clamps can be cut), and all is looking good.

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