Assembling the Boat

We worked till late on Wednesday, March 9th and we are making good progress. We've made a few mistakes along the way but nothing that was too serious. Luck's been with us on a few wrong cuts as you will see below. The boat is now being assembled. There is lots of glue on the chimes and then we have to clamp and screw the wood to them.

Here are some pictures of the entire boat. Looking pretty good!

Next we have to cut chimes the length of the boat and hope they bend without breaking. We need to put an 18 degree angle on both sides the shape of a parallelagram. We checked, checked again and still messed up the cut. Tim did an excellent job cutting but I think it was the guy setting up the saw. But we had a horseshoe with us and our mistake was quite easy to correct. I think we're have to get back to the two man Q/A checks. We made the cuts as our last item to complete on Wednesday night and we're attach the chimes next week.