Ocean Bound

Such a proud and beautiful bow!

A bit messy from drilling holes for the seats.

Securely fastend to the trailer.

Sexy motor mmmm...

Aug 25th 2009 Boat leaves garage!

Well here we see her form the second floor porch. The trailer looked a lot bigger when there was no boat on it!
Oh! so gracefull.

It will look even better with that outboard on the back.

This picture looks a lot nicer the right way up.

Overhaulin'

Yeah the green was making me feel ill, so we have a new look.

HOly CrAp! - Progress

Sometime in the last couple weeks I actually did some work. 

The inside of the boat is all painted like.

I cut off the excess on the top of the stem, so pretty now. (holy shit. cornhole!)

What do you think of the interior paint color? Soothing right? WEST MARINE calls it Sand.

Here is the forward thwart, after careful snooping at the Depot I actually found some agreeable pieces of wood.

It just looks so...

Cleats

I get tired of sanding fast, so, a couple of nights ago I decided to make some oak cleats for the ship. I stole the design from a copy of woodenBoat that had dimentions for cleats ranging from about 5 to 10 in. The plans call for 6" bronze cleats, I want wood so I beefed them up. I thought 8" would look chunky and 7" too small so I customized to 7.5" What ya think?

I have to say they look pretty sweet.

After I cut blocks to the hight and length of the cleat, they looked mighty short. But, once shaped, they look mighty sexy!

Looking like a real boat

OOh yeah. Breasthook installed. I just want to motor boat that ish!

FRAMES - Instaled!

Quarter Knees - Instaled.

Transom - Notched out for the Outboard. Word!

She is looking so sweet. Look for some painting in the near future. I can smell the sweet fish guts already.

6/18/09 - On Tuesday I spent some time on sanding and filling minor imperfections in the hull. That is some tedious work. I took all of the frames and the seat rails out of the boat. I jacked up and set up my router table (ghetto), and put a chamfer around all of the frames. I marked out the location for the seat rails and left square edges on that part so it receives the seat rail firmly. This should add a nice bit of detail to the inside of the ship.






Also, while I had everything out of the boat I put the finishing touches on the breasthook and the quarter knees. Shout out to Marky Heron for letting me use his shop to clean up my gnarly band sawyering.