The form

The boat is built on a form, which basically serves as a foundation for the boat. The boat is built from the inside out, and as you might imagine, it's not very strong starting out. So the form serves to provide strength to the fledgling boat. The form, if properly constructed (which this was!), also serves as a perfectly level reference upon which the boat can be built.

The picture that follow illustrate, in no uncertain terms, the ridiculously small space in which this boat is being built. One of the trade-offs in living in an old house in a quasi-urban area.

The difference in tone between the bottom and the top of the form is due to the fact that I encapsulated the bottom of the form with epoxy (West epoxy, FYI). This was done because our garage occasionally takes on water, and the epoxy will protect the wood from the water.