corrections
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Hull Finish Work (or Correcting Mistakes III)
I like to joke that I bring Old World Craftsmanship to my work. Old World like Neanderthal, the fine kind of workmanship you get from precision woodworking tools such as heavy clubs and sharpish rocks. One of the things I like about building is all the layers of increasingly fine-tuned craftsmanship one brings to a…
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Correcting Mistakes II: The Usefulness of Square Corners
When we went to put sheets of plywood on the top, er, bottom of the boat hull, they didn’t really line up. WTF? It seemed unlikely that four sheets of plywood were manufactured not quite square, so we had to look elsewhere. When we assembled the stringers with the cross beams, we had squared the…