hull bottom glued on

cutting the bottom panels - it helps to use a new makita no. 2 blade

How do I keep motivated,  I just step outside my workshop and look at the view
 -  the sea is calling

greetings to you all - from the Açores

 The hull bottom panel in progress

the hull bottom panel the first sheet of 2500x1220x10 plywood on the bottom, 

this gives you a an idea of the beam of the boat

Sides on , sides planed  and butt blocks installed ,
Ready for the bottom panels

roughly cut and then planed

all planed smooth

Today the chine panels were planed down, this entailed removing the the stainless screws are they were above where the plane was cutting, and yes my plane cuts stainless screws, but only once, I had to do a major plane iron sharpening session, the buttblocks were cut , drilled countersunk and glued and screwed onto the joins, buttblock width 16 times the plywood thickness as per the Gougeon brothers book, I add buttblocks  after fitting the panels as it makes for a better  fair curve to the panels  - no flat spots, the panels when fitted had epoxy saturation on the end grain and were also edge butt glued, then later the butt blocks are glued with lots of thickened epoxy and also screwed.

butt blocks cut ready for drilling and countersinking

The hull panel join before being butt blocked, the backing plate for the shrouds ends up at this hull panel joint as well so the shroud backing plate has a big backing plate (the buttblock),shroud backing blocks are specced as being 2x10mm ply  - one layer (the buttblock) now one will be wider than on the drawing. so will give the shroud backing block a bigger  area to glue to.

The hull is now ready for the first layer of bottom ply, which will be cut tomorrow and fitted