This is the exciting part... the old workbench is now actual boat pieces... I cut the legs down to about 12" off of the ground and start to put the (4) 16' boat pieces together (the two hull pieces and the two side pieces)...
This boat is built using the "stitch and glue" method. It is a fairly new boat building technique... picture taking apart an orange and leaving the peel in one or two pieces... or, If you are in your 40's or older you'll remember the maps of the world in geography class where the world was a poster but it looked like an orange peeled in one piece and then layed flat on the wall... clear as mud?
Well anyway... the two hull pieces are stitched together and the two side pieces are stitched to the two hull pieces using baling wire... holes are cut every 6" or so... closer as the pieces are pulled together to form the boat shape.
In the pics above, you can see where the wire WAS... at this stage, I took the wires out already after I joined the pieces together with epoxy... I wasn't very disciplined in the photo taking department so you'll have to use your imagination a lot... ; )
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