Getting JIGgy With It

Today was a great day in the boat shop (garage).  I went off to Lowe's this morning to grab a few odds and ends in preparation of the frame build.  Picked up some stainless wood screws, finish washers for the Gunwale Bolts, along with a wide variety of sandpapers in preparation for all of the fairing and subsequent fun with fiberglass that awaits us.

One I got back to the house, I decided to build frame #6.  This is a very simple middle of the boat frame that is square with no bevels.

 For those keeping score at home, we have now built Frames 1, 3, 5, 6 & 10.

After building frame 6, I moved onto finishing the scarfing jig, then playing with some junk plywood.  This thing works like a dream and should aid greatly in my Thanksgiving weekend projects.

We spent some time discussing the next work we will complete.  Since Gary is heading out of town for Thanksgiving, we are going to really be pressed to get the frames done before he leaves.  The plan is to build Frame #8 and the Transom Frame out of Doug Fir tomorrow.  We are then going to break into the Port Orford Cedar and get all 11 final frames made tomorrow evening/night.  Gary scored by tracking down a compound miter saw for us to use for a few weeks.  This will make the frame building so much quicker.  While Gary is gone I will get the side and bottom plywood scarfed so we can look to assemble the boat next week.  I am also going to take our big hunk of Poplar for the Stem Post to GMMW tomorrow and get it cut out, while also grabbing some left over Mahogany to use in the boat.  Our garage will smell like cedar tomorrow and then 'Rich Mahogany' for sometime thereafter.  Stay Classy...