March 2012

Wouldn’t you know it we had several weeks at the beginning of March that were mild enough to start placing the molds on the ladder back frame. My fellow boat builder friends; Bud and Ben came over one day and we temporarily placed all the molds on the ladder-back. We attached 2x4x 48 lengths of lumber to the edge of the mold that met the ladder back. Once these were attached we attached them to the ladder back with 3 inch screws. You know, all the books make is sound so easy to place the molds on the ladder-back and instantly they’ll be aligned both laterally and horizontally. Well, that didn’t happen in this case! It’s a real job to make sure that each form is aligned to the center line. We needed to use a shim here and there but we did it. All the molds were in place and the stem was attached to the 1^st and 2^nd station mold. At this point I had spent 57 hours working on the boat and spent $866.20.