Bought Small Drill

We went to LaCroisette Mr Bricolage to buy a small drill that was on promotion there. We're going to be using it for the drilling of the stitch holes along the length of the wooden panels that are going to become the boat.

Buy Epoxy for test work

We bought our Epoxy glue from Amro Chemicals today. We only bought a small sample of epoxy glue to test our skills first and to learn about how to use wood epoxy. A length of 400g/m2 fiberglass roving was also bought for the joining of the wood parts.

Sharpening block planes

The block planes' blades were sharpened and the tables were set up for the cutting of wood.

Starting on the actual wood for the boat.

After trying out our skills on normal plywood on the 1st of May, today we've set to work on the actual marine plywood that's going to be used on the boat. We did the lofting (drawing on the big ply sheets) and cutting out as well. Work went smoothly as we already knew well in advance what had to be done and it was all done precisely.

It is to be noted that our new Dremel Sawmax is to be used only for special circumstances and the cutting here will be done with a normal handsaw.

Sheet of marine grade plywood, looks really nice.

Second table added to be able to cut while Sultan is drawing.

Placing small nails. Will use a batten (a sort of long flexible ruler) to draw curves.

All nails placed.

Cutting with a normal saw.

cutting very small separations.

Dremel SawMax

We just received our new Dremel Sawmax to use to cut wood. Sultan got it from the Parcel Post Office. Its going to be used to cut the curves and awkward angles of the boat parts from the sheets of plywood.

Testing front part curvature

We just cut out our first parts of the boat.The parts we cut were the lowest panel of the boat's front. They were cut out of normal plywood in order to test our skills with a material that we can easily throw away in case of mistake. Didn't really take long to draw and cut out and it was a great pleasure for us to see that front part curve upwards on opening the stitched plys.

Sultan doing design on 4' x 8' sheets 

Plan requires measurements to mm precision

First part cut out.

The wonderful piece of advanced tech used to cut everything.

second one is done.

Preparing to drill the hols for the stitch cable ties.

Marking out for drilling holes for stitch work.

Stitch done.

Opened like a big book. looks really beautiful.

Small gaps that are not going to be there when the whole panel is opened on the final work for the boat.