Work continues on the DE w/ transom.. I was hoping to form the hull maybe this weekend, but it doesn't look like I will quite be ready. May have to put it off for a few as next weekend is PA opening day for trout which means backpacking, camping, and flyfishing in some remote spot where the rabble won't be able to find us.

In the mean time, I am doing just about my favoite thing in the world: listening to the Phillies on my old AM tube radio while block planing the massive…

Is it bad luck if it's just a green stripe and not the whole hull?…

What... you mean the tools depicted in "drift boats and river dories" are just an artists conception ?!?

Alright (har har), just kidding my other dill is a Bosch - When digging around for my block planes I came across the old egg beater and couldn't resist (nearly burst a blood vessle faking the look of exertion)... I'm slow enough as it is, I couldn't imagine the time (and strength) it…

To kill some time while waiting for the wood, I decided to cut some test frames out of some ratty old pine I had laying around the shop. I seem to have the methodology down based on what I have going in the shop and what I'm best working with:

1. I'm ripping both side frame pieces out of one board using a Bosch jigsaw (and straight edge) and a really fine blade to do the mitered cut.

2. table saw for the straight cuts of the side frames and the bottom mitred rip of the bottom…

The wood is on its way and its time to clean out the garage and organize the tools.

Besides nature's way of taking every possible extraneous doo-dad you own (and some you don't) and jamming them into every single unoccupied inch of space in the garage, there is one other fundamental truth (regarding garages) that I have come to realize. It can be expressed in equation form:

New Boat In = Old Boat Out

It is indeed a sad and poiniant truth. For "A.M. Radio"…

Alright, here we go - my first wooden boat; time to get down to business. A double ender w/ transom right out of Roger's book. To date:

1) Read Roger's book (a few times)...Needless to say, essential.

2) Built a model using Auto CAD - see pic below. Let me tell you for those of you who were never to handy or sucessful with model building, I think this is a really nice alternative. As a preface, alls I could ever do with my hand-built models as a kid was to half build…

Here are a few pic's of the progress after a long hiatus,,,,,started back in with the floor first. Looked like a fun job. Cut a couple more pieces of flooring than were in the kit and decided to make it removable. Simple barrel/bolt to keep it in place. Little concerned about the about of pressure it takes to compress front section to conform to rib rocker. Think I'll add a short section of aluminum angle underneath the holes I drilled for the bolt in the spruce cross member ends just to…