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Making Sawdust
The whole process of building a boat involves cutting a lot of lumber, but at the beginning there were whole days of doing nothing but. The plans called for kiln-dried or air-dried lumber of no more than 12% moisture. I live in the hills of Northern California which at times is like living in a…
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Organization: How To Make Boatbuilding Not Suck
Boats are made of lots and lots of funny precision parts that all look more or less the same but are subtle different. A bow skeg stringer end accidentally exchanged for a stern skeg stringer end and it’s all over. The previous build day, in my excitement I threw together the dead simple building form,…