Book re. wooden boatbuilding

Just finished Wooden Boats by Michael Ruhlman. From the minutiae file: 1.) Ruhlman lives in Cleveland Heights 2.) Mikey, he is the co-author of the charcuterie book.

This was an engaging book that tells the story of a boat shop in Martha's Vineyard. It also is a sometimes preachy diatribe against the plasticization and impermanence of modern western culture. I would raise more of a fuss about this preaching, but he happens to be right. The last several pages of the book offer a poignant summary of his view. This book is also the justification I need to build my next boat using the plank-on-frame method, assuming we move to a place with a big enough workspace to accommodate it.

Progress Pics

Hey, we were in Toronto last week so I haven't done much work lately. This weekend, though, I had a chance to finish up the frames and do some more work on the centerboard trunk. Before we left, I had filled the gaps in the frames and centerboard trunk sides that arose from my general inexperience with epoxy. Yesterday and today, I filed/sanded the filler so that it looked OK and wouldn't create any problems for sailors. In the next week or two, I'm hoping to finish up some miscellaneous tasks. Looks like Mikey might make it here some time in late September/early October so we can place the frames/centerboard trunk and steam bend the keel.

Here are the frames in their finished state:

















Here are the centerboard trunk sides and centerboard: