Last night I told Sue that she would soon have to join me as a boat builder for a day or two. She was eager to start! (The alternative was that she would have to work toward her goal of riding 100 miles a week on her bike.) So in the morning while she went to town, I sanded the thwarts and cleaned up all rabbets and splotches on the hull panels. Then I cleaned off the flatbed trailer and dragged it outside to make room in the garage for the two saw horses that will hold the boat during the rest of the construction.
We got down to work in mid-afternoon and started to wire on the first hull panels and the bulkheads. It was a touchy and somewhat challenging business -- especially the final task of fitting in the transom. But now it is starting to look like a boat. By tomorrow afternoon it should start looking like a Northeaster Dory.
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