First building day. a couple of hours.
Today I´ve been drawing. I like to draw. Especially tech stuff. I think I have drawn at least 100 sailing boats when I was a kid. I showed them all to may dad. Some times he was interested and sometimes he didn´t really care. I mean thats ok. No hard feelings dad. Having to see more than 100 tecnical drawings can be a little bit boring.
So now I´´ve bought my first set of boat drawings (I have some 5 or 6 guitar building plans) Its a plywood canoe. And its going to be my first homemade vessel.
I´ve had 2 very beautiful sailboats. The first was a Utzon spidsgatter and the next was a Nordisk Folkebaad. (Typical Danish sailing boats) Both traditional wooden sailing yachts, so when I started thinking about a canoe, It was obvious that it had to be a wooden canoe and not some kind of plastic thing. besides I´m a professional guitarbuilder, so wood is something I know and like to work.
The canoe is going to be a Selway-Fisher design (www.makeacanoe.com) A shortened and lowered version of their Prospector 15,8" (more about that later)
So, I´ve been drawing, transfereing the little numbers on the plan to a 2500 x 1220 x 5mm okume marine plywood board.
I found a nice way of making the lines. Using one of these plastic things you use for hiding cables, a couple of nails, 2 old metal planes and a can of varnish.
The plastic channel makes smooth curves, and the nails and the planes does that you dont need a helping hand to hold everything in place.
this I´ve been doing "downstairs" In my workshop. The building itself of the canoe will be "upstairs" In the large second floor of our house:
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