The last panel

Making this boat is a bit like making a giant jigsaw puzzle where you make the pieces as you go. Here the last piece of the starboard hull has been made and put in place.

Simply showing the radius added to the edge.

And the finished panel.

Another big milestone is made. Both hulls are now structurally complete!
Still a bit to do to protect the wood and add some paint but a pretty good stage to be at.

Making windows

The starboard cabin is coming along well now with the side window and entry cut out.

An obvious process here but a lot of care is needed.

Cabin shape

Here we go with the starboard cabin. It took a lot of care to match up the cabin curve. I levelled the hull and used the laser level to mark the dimensions and sand to shape.

Then on with the first sheet of the roof .

Then the second layer which I propped up from inside and added some weight to make sure the bond is good.

Once again I'm back to putting on sheets of ply, which is probably the most enjoyable job during the build as the boat quickly takes on a new shape.

Duplication

Time to start on the cabin. Here you can see the panel which will become the inside of the starboard cabin. This piece was cut at the same time as the port cabin with the two pieces of ply screwed together.
You can just make out the pencil lines of the grid drawn to get the cabin top curve so I hopefully will end up with a duplicate of the port cabin shape.

Here are the first stringers to go on the aft part of the cabin.

And here the inside of the cabin is glued in place and the shape of the roof will be matched to this curve.

Tricky bits

Mostly this boat is quick to build. Mostly.
What isn't so quick is the beam reinforcing areas.

In the picture below you can see part of what forms the structure for taking the aft beam loads.
This is very similar to the port hull except that on the port hull I have made the cross structure much larger and higher using a big piece of Mahogany which will double as a mounting point for the outboard motor.

Also I have restocked some consumables. I have used almost 400 of these disposable gloves so far.

More Gudgeon's

Here is the second set of gudgeon's going on. The picture shows a test dry fitting lined up with the laser before fixing with bolts and epoxy.

I am slowly getting to use all the extra parts I bought during construction of hull 1. Buying two sets of everything early on means not much money has been spent during the second hull build.

Bow closed

I've been working on the bow and front deck. The small raised portion of the deck is made in many small stages and takes a bit longer.
In this picture is a small batch of epoxy ready to be brushed onto the gluing surfaces.

Next the panel is on and I'm ready for the next job.

Quite happy with how things are coming along. It's hard to say at what point a pile of wood becomes a boat, but it feels like it is happening now. Obviously lots still to do but it is definitely more boat than wood pile. :)