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The only sailing photos I have were taken before the square rigging arrived, too bad. I say arrived because we didn't build the yards and their r...

The interior of the boat was completed before launching, unfortunately without any progress photos so I'll just show some finished shots here. In...

Now we are nearing the big day, launching. The hull has been faired and sanded and is ready for it's finish. The chosen product was Deks Olje, a ...

One of the more common complaints against wooden boats is leaking decks. With a traditional caulked deck this can certainly be a challenge. Decks...

Probably the most anticipated part of building a wooden boat is the planking. The old boat builder I learned from used to call it "boardin' 'er up"...

Note: I was new to blogging when I wrote these. They get a little too technical. 😁 If you lose me, just skip to the pictures. If you are intrigued,...

  Besides the yellow cedar which will be used for planking, deck framing and various timbers and knees, an assortment of other woods and materials ...

Looks like some of you might like to see a little more boatbuilding (and I need to rescue my blogs from oblivion) so here goes. - These are twelve...

This is a bit anticlimactic after the project has been posted but I wanted to keep the "plane box" thing a secret. There were however some cool han...

With the hinge out of the way, one of the tricky fits is history but getting all the corners to match is another thing altogether. The marquetry wa...

With the grooves made and the bottom fitted (1/4" plywood hammer veneered on both sides) the next job was to make the interlocking rebates for the ...

When I ended the last segment I had just tried out the router plane. It needed a little tuning so the next day I honed and adjusted it a little and...