What happens when you tell your gf that you’re gonna build a boat? “Okay..” then she looks away. When you start getting the lumber to build it, she then says “So, you’re really goin through with it?” Yep. When a man wants to build a boat, then a man will build a boat. 10 days later, approx 60 hours of buying materials, transferring patterns, measuring lines and angles, cutting, sanding/planing, I finally have the 4 frames that the boat will be built on. Next is the transom and stem cut-outs, epoxying the gussets onto each of the frames, and then epoxy sealant for everything. Going to take a break for a few weeks to get back to studying full time and getting ready for the comp exam for PT school. It’s a good time to take a break as the next step requires marine plywood to form the gussets, laminates and stem. Marine plywood is a mythological material here in Colorado. Being landlocked and far from the coast or significant body of water, none of the lumber yards or suppliers here have marine plywood in stock for the amateur boatbuilder. It’ll probably be early September when I get the marine plywood and epoxy, and late September when I start constructing the building form to rest the frames. Everything in it’s time and place.

Here are the four completed frame cutouts:

Frame 4:

Frame 3:

Frame 2:

Frame 1: