Visiting Boat Builder 3/20/16

 

 

We had an interesting night last evening. Tim, Dave and I were working at fairing up the Chine on the bottom of the boat. Basically creating a flat surface null of voids to glue and screw the bottom to.

 

This went rather well..... with the use of a power planer and sander and a straight edge we made quick work of it.

 

 

We were not going to do much more but did decide to start on the 2x8 butt blocks used to fasten sections of the boat bottom together.  We made our first attempt and made a bad cut on the angle which left the board slightly short.  Did I mention that occasionally we have made a bad cut or two.

 

It was during the correction of that bad cut that we had an "Experienced" visiting boat builder join our presence.  To protect the innocent lets just say his name rhymes' with Squidly Speelman .

 

He quickly began to infuse the team with his vast knowledge of boat building. In shock and awe ATC style.  He honed us in on a fail proof cutting technique that would improve our current QC on these difficult cuts.  

 

I left the night with a realization.... maybe our team is not that bad after all.   It only took an expert and 12 linear ft of fir to learn it.