This is the day when the Dory started to look like a Dory. I went to town in the morning, but in the afternoon Sue and I spent three hours stitching on the rest of the hull panels. I had to wrestle with the fitting of the transom and drill a few new holes for the stitches, but to my untutored eye everything is turning out quite well.
Tomorrow I will need to tighten many of the stitches and then find a way to flip the boat so that I can begin spot gluing the hull panels between stitches. That will firm up the hull, allowing me to flip it again and fiberglass the interior of the hull.
If I have to kill time before I can recruit a helper to flip the boat, I still need to glue up the rails, the spars, the daggerboard, and the rudder.
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| Looking at the Dory from the bow |
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| Looking at the Dory from the transom |
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| Closer view of the bow |
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| Closer view of the transom |
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