spent roughly 400 swedish crowns on the wood... and probably over 1000 on various tools (clamps, some sawhorses, a japanese pull saw, the plane i used for the paddle).
I got the wood to my dad's garage, and started cutting out the gunwales, chines and keel.
my gunwales are 22mmx75mm and 4.8 metres long.
i would have preferred them 30 cm longer, but it was the longest they had.
the chines and keel are 22x22 and the same length.
So i got 3 planks that were 22mmx120mm, and got cracking with a circle saw.
I messed up one of the gunwales, the wood cracked where i cut it and took of a large gash that i didn't like the look of.
luckily i had a third, and the broken gunwale could still be used to cut into 2by2's for the chines and keel.
however the wood was cheap, and cheap means there are some knots in it, and my chine broke.
but, in the end, i managed to get just what i needed out of the 3 planks i got.
next up, copying the measurements i made to the gunwales.
and once I had marked out all the locations of the deck beams and ribs, i started drawing the mortises for the ribs.
once i finished drawing them all up, i got the drill out, and started with the tactic of drilling two holes and one in the middle, however the drill ran out of batteries after the first 3 mortises, so i decided to skip ahead a bit in the book and do other things that didn't depend on the rib mortises being cut.
I marked out the sheer, and cut a little bit off one of the gunwales, but decided it was getting too dark to see properly with the little lamp i had so i decided to go home and come back next weekend.
going back out for more building on saturday, and I'm planning on staying out there and working sunday too.
hoping to get all the mortises cut and if i'm lucky maybe all the deck beams cut and fitted.
but, we'll see. should be another update sometime during next week :)
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