measurement
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Sheeting the Hull
It looks easy, right? What could go wrong? Four rectangular sheets of plywood lined up together on a horizontal surface made to fit them, screwed down on all the edges. But as soon as we started sheeting the bottom of the boat, we realized this seemingly simple task would be more complicated. How do we…
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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…