I'm starting to see why I paid all that money for architecture graduate school - I learned how to draft! Mixing those skills with my traditional navigation skills and the various navigation tools I own like three armed protractors and parallel rules, I am quick and accurate at layout.

Today was a hot one. It hit 80 F. Hotter in the building shed. I'm not complaining I got to work half naked enjoying the last days of summer before the rains really set in. I spent the day lofting the upper hull sides, stem and stern and three of the bulkheads. I built a sloped desk for the plan book and screwed clothes pegs to the wall to hold the drawing sheets.

Templates are the way to go and I am happy I had made some of these over the weekend. Transferring the lines on to the plywood was efficient and accurate and I was able to layout the elements so that I optimise the plywood and have pieces left over big enough to make shelves and other interior bits. I kept listening for the UPS truck to deliver my digital scale so I can start coating the sheets. I have other things to do before I get to that so really I'm not in a rush to start the epoxy part. Perhaps the UPS truck will deliver tomorrow... I'm in that honeymoon phase where it feels like I can get this first hull done in say "a week?" Like I said, the honeymoon!