The next big step should be joining the side panels at the bow and stern. I’ll need to set the bottom pieces aside to make enough room on the work table and will wait to do that. I glued the scarfs in the bottom panels late yesterday afternoon. Since then, the air has been its…

I laid out the bottom panels and glued them together. I meant to do this earlier today, but I got flummoxed and thought, rather than make a big mistake, just do nothing. Wait until you’re settled about what you mean to do. A few hours later, I decided to do this: (1) stretch the string…

I told you yesterday that I was a little hazy on the order of operations. The bottom panels need to be built up just like the side panels were (but with reference to the “ship’s drawings”). Maybe the instructions were meant to suggest that I could have laid up a thicker Dagwood and done them…

I think I have hit upon a strategy to keep momentum going and avoid the feeling of being overwhelmed. When setting about the work you mean to accomplish on day N, do the prepwork, insofar as you can, for day N+1. You can do it first, during, or after. Today I aim to glue up…

Let’s start actually building a boat on April Fool’s Day, shall we? Encouraged by overnight experiments with the original epoxy, I glued up the sheer clamps. It’s tough to pour so little epoxy. I wanted 10 grams of resin and 5 grams of hardener, but though I was pouring slowly, I still got 16 and…