Some notes of progress

Last Saturday was a good day to get a little work accomplished.  I decided to go over to the lumberyard and use the radial arm saw there instead of trying to cut everything with a circular saw.  Here's a pic of the setup I was working with.

Once I got everything set up I went ahead and ripped to width all the bottom ribs.  For the bottom ribs, I've decided to go with 3 inches for the bottom rib.  Here's a stack of all the bottom ribs ripped to width and cut to length.

I layed out all the ribs to see what the profile of the bottom of the boat will look like.  I'm thinking it looks pretty good, but I'm gonna narrow up the transom about 6 inches.  It sits at 18 inches on the keel line right now and feel 12 inches would be a better size.

The next step was to cut all the side ribs.  For this I ripped some 1x6 to 5 inches.  Then measured in 1-1/2" on one side and 3-1/2" on the other side.  By doing this I'm able to cut two ribs out of one piece of stock.

So after about half an hour I have all the ribs cut and am ready for the next steps.  Next thing is to build the strongback, assemble the ribs, bevel all the angles, skin the boat, etc.  So needless to say, just a few more weeks worth of work.  Or months!!

Going to try and turn some duck calls tonight so come on back in the next day or so for some pics of that.

See ya soon.