Bottom planking 6

Here comes the promised pic

If you compare it to previous pics, the keel between the most forward rib and the very front has been leveled out, I hope this allows me to fit the bottom plank finally.

Bottom planking 5

Two days ago, Sunday afternoon had a few minutes with my boat again. Discussed the front end problems with Aivars (guy I share the workshop with, he is building a Corby Starlet airplane) and came to what seems like a solution. Hope to get there again later today, work a bit and also post some pics.

Bottom planking 4

Finally, had some quality time with my boat last night. Still tinkering on how to best fit the bottom and sides up front. Spent about an hour sawing, fitting, glueing...

Bottom planking 3

Yesterday and today had a few (3 total) hours on the boat - fitted the outer keel, fitted one more bottom piece and also decided how I will bottom plank the front part.

Bottom planking 2

So nice to see the boat actually taking shape.

Costs

Just calculated that so far I have spent:
- materials and specific tools that I will not ever use elsewhere = LVL192 (EUR272, USD354)
- shop rent summer'11 = LVL120
- rest of the tools I do not count as either I already had them before this project or (like cordless drill) they are useful around the house and I would have those anyway.

The hours I estimate around 100 so far, with my current salary... that's a lot in money terms!!!

Bottom planking

Yesterday I realised that in order to shape a symmetric front on the boat I need to know how the bottom will look like, so I decided to start bottom planking as well. The fitting seems pretty easy, at least on the aft.

Bought some 9mm plywood for this. Also bought 200 pcs Torx head SS screws for bottom planking which I intend to leave in the boat contrary to the side plank screws.