Some progress ...

... stitched bottom. Yeah :-) 

... transom.
Note: I might be going for double rudder ...

 

... bottom stringers.

... side panels are on.

... and prow.

... hull form is looking pretty good.

Winter is over ...

Winter is officially over since the beginning of April. Now that we enter Mai, I think it is time to update the blog.

1) Winter was hard, lots of snow (sometimes at least :-) ) and I lost my shipyard tent because of too much snow in one night :-(. The sight of the caved in tent was too hard to look upon, so I didn't take pictures.
This was taken after we cleaned up the mess and before we put up the new one.

2) I remembered my CAD past and designed the cradle components (cutting table under the plans look familiar? I got the idea on i550.org)

3) this is the "base frame" for the cradle ...

4) ... and here is the finished product:

Now the fun can start ... :-)

Last post before winter? We will see ...

Ok, so fall was not what it was supposed to be :-(

I will just post what is left over on my camera and tell you that the project is (more or less) on hold during the winter months.

Hull 278 - commenced construction!

Finally :-)

FYI ...

... this is an i550

Shipyard essentials ;-)

Hello World!

First things first.
If one wants to build a ship, one should have his own shipyard.

Hmm...

... not good enough.

Therefore ...

... much better :-)