Art's Boat Build

The bottom plywood has been trimmed, planed, filed and sanded. So the planking is now completed. Screw holes have been filled, sanded, fil...

Raising the bar: So far I've been happy that I raised the form that the boat frames mount to. The plan says 24" off the floor, but ...

The first step was bending the forward end of the long battens into position by sawing a horizontal kerf back almost to the frame and then ...

When I got ready for putting on the second side, I enlisted some help. With the first side, after juggling the long panel and then clampin...

Since the boat I'm building has a retro look, I wanted to get a classic outboard for it. After doing a lot of research on older outboard...

Prefitting the side involved getting a 8' x 18" piece of plywood in place from the front of the boat back to where it ended just fo...

The process of beveling and smoothing all the surfaces that the plywood "skin" mates to is called fairing. It is inherently a bit ...