Today was a fine fall day. The temperature has started to fall but as it is still sunny here during the day, the weather is crisp and it is pleasant to be outside. I moved out of the boat shed to cut out hullsides and bulkheads. With a respirator on and a fan blowing, I had sawdust free cutting. Anyone contemplating building one of Wharram's boats should look into the efficiencies of using 5x10 foot/1.524x3.048m sheets of plywood. You end up not having a joint at the bottom of bulkheads 2 and 3 and you save almost the area of an entire 6mm sheet of plywood on the bulkheads alone. I now wish I had made templates for every component or done the drawings up in CAD to figure out if there were other efficiencies. While I was working outside cutting the bulkheads, I had to go into the "shop" to get something. That is how I got the image above. I moved the plywood a little to get the Joubert label dead center to the light pattern but the shape and the message was clear from the sail shape of the light falling through a gap in the wall. This is going to be a good boat. I took it as a positive signal.
Monday, October 02, 2006
Today was a fine fall day. The temperature has started to fall but as it is still sunny here during the day, the weather is crisp and it is pleasant to be outside. I moved out of the boat shed to cut out hullsides and bulkheads. With a respirator on and a fan blowing, I had sawdust free cutting. Anyone contemplating building one of Wharram's boats should look into the efficiencies of using 5x10 foot/1.524x3.048m sheets of plywood. You end up not having a joint at the bottom of bulkheads 2 and 3 and you save almost the area of an entire 6mm sheet of plywood on the bulkheads alone. I now wish I had made templates for every component or done the drawings up in CAD to figure out if there were other efficiencies. While I was working outside cutting the bulkheads, I had to go into the "shop" to get something. That is how I got the image above. I moved the plywood a little to get the Joubert label dead center to the light pattern but the shape and the message was clear from the sail shape of the light falling through a gap in the wall. This is going to be a good boat. I took it as a positive signal.
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