Today, I am mostly swotting up on the theory, tools, and techniques of cutting a rabbit (rebate) in a big boat's keel timber to shape it for fitting frames to the keel and then planks to the frames.
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Part of today has been spend preparing and fitting the aft seat top ready to be glued in place in the next couple of days. It will have an inspection port fitted, and then create a water tight bouyancy chamber.

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Preparing to close up this chamber and fit the seat.

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This is the rear of the boat, and this section will soon be covered over to make a seat and bouyancy chamber. One of the round white ports from the previous photo will provide inspection access, mostly to check it doesn't have water in it.

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Schooner: best looking yacht rig

Staysail schooner: *hurk*
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Picking throught the video footage is... interesting.

My partner is so going to tell me off when she sees me doing this alone... but she was being all cute and asleep and I didn't want to disturb her!

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Some serious yak shaving in progress!

This is part of the #boatbuilding video I'm working on, hence the GoPro watching the #3dprinting .

Starting to get the #GoPro and video editing process worked out, here's a little teaser shot from #boatbuilding today.

I'm having to ao a fair bit of "get over it" about my appearance and such as there's just no way to look good rolling around under a boat with dust masks etc on!

:)

β€˜Sailing on a story’: Montreal relics used in boat-building workshops at Big O
A Montreal non-profit is helping to facilitate access to the water and world of sailing for those without the means, whether that’s time, money or access to people with relevant knowledge. It's holding boat-building workshops this winter to refurbish their fleet to use for free sa...
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/boat-building-workshops-montreal-9.7089086?cmp=rss