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| Rounding over the bracket for the foot stretchers using a router. The foot stretcher brackets were cut out with the CNC machine and will be used for skiff #1. |
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| Gluing up the next garboard plank. |
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| We glued the keelson to the stems and the frames. |
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| Putting glue on the bow stem. |
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| We were spreading glue on the frames. |
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| We clamped the keelson down to the stems and the frames. Afterwards, we had to clean off the extra glue. |
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| We used a block plane to plane down the hog (keelson) to fit the garboard plank. |
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| We are fitting the garboard plank to the hog (keelson), stem, and frames in order to make sure it's fair. We still have to plane more off the keelson for a perfect fit. Look at the twist from midships to the stem! |
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| In our lumber rack, we had a perfect piece of knot-free Spruce to use for the "hog" or the keelson. We used a router to round the edges of the hog so it would fit nicely into the mould set-up. |
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| Gluing the inner stems together. We decided to use the marine plywood stems that came with the kit instead of making them out of hardwood. |
