What do you do when you have a big garage, a lot of plywood and it's summer break?
You build a boat! :)
Welcome to my boat-building blog. Dad and I decided to try our hands (all three of them - more on that later) at building a sailboat. We chose a Devlin-designed "Eider." The Eider is a 17-foot gaff-rigged sailboat with a little cabin. At least it will be. At the moment, it looks like plywood. Really, really expensive plywood.
Dad had a little argument with the table saw and needs some time for his hand to heal. He thought he was going to get out of building a boat. Poor guy. The good news is, his hand should heal completely. Until then, "all hands on deck" will get us three.
Step 1 is called "scarfing" (which sounds curiously like what it makes you want to do after you've been leaning over plywood with a planer for two hours). It means that you make these stair steps smoothly graded so you can glue the plywood together to make longer pieces!
More to come! I can't promise how fast it will go... but surely SOMETHING will happen!
