Ok today I feel like I actually am gaining ground on the build. I think maybe because it looks likes something, maybe like fish ribs, but at least it’s a start. I have the trunk mounted and the outer frames attached to it and lined up. I have glued it all together and tomorrow I will put the screws in it. As I was setting up the frames I came across another problem that took me a while to sit and look at to figure out. In the plans it says the setup member log on frame #1 needs to be flush on the jig and that was a head scratcher. I had laid a board on top of all the frames and it just was not sitting flat on frame #2. At first I thought about cutting a notch in the jig and lowering frame #3 to get the board to sit flatter across the top of the frames. Before I did that I sat and looked at it for a while and thought hey frame #1 is too high and besides it was going to be a steep bend in the plywood to get it to touch the transom. Then I figured it out I need to notch the jig and let the frame drop into it some so that the setup log will rest on top of it properly. After notching and letting it drop down its all nice now and looks really good. I attached a picture of the drop in notch.
Things are moving along pretty well now and I put the stem on the front just to see how square it all was. I will be hard fitting the stem tomorrow, I have clamp on it now. I also am gluing the breast hook together for placement tomorrow also. I have glued together some boards to make the wedge needed for the front of the stem to hole up right and will attempt to cut the angle on it tomorrow.
My sails came in today that I purchased from eBay, I haven’t looked at them yet I did not want to spread them out on the dirty shop floor. I will take them out into the grass tomorrow and have a look.
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