And I began to open the presents:
Brianne soon arrived and we began the "Inventory" - a few parts are back ordered but nothing we need in the short term (sails for example are a fair bit away, as are oars). Everything - ready for inventory:
Some friends I have talked to have asked about how it is all fastened together. Here is a pic of all the hardware used in the PMD (the wire is actually just used in construction and will be removed and thrown away).
The very important - crucial book:
The real "fastener" is the epoxy - super super glue of the 21st century:
Let's start assembly - where we find the first surprise. All other blogs and instructions I have seem for the PMD have scarf joined strakes and bottom panels. Not so with ours which has "puzzle" joints. The jury (and least of Brianne and I) is out on this. Seems like it will be really hard to disguise these joints under varnish - and we are not sure how pretty they will be. Not much we can do about it though - other than start gluing them up.
And our first cup of epoxy:
And we glue the OutValves - well outwales anyway - which most of us know at gunwales (pic of the jig first and then the glue up):
After the first wait of twenty-four hours we cleared the table and started the remaining pieces: #4 strake, the bottom panel, and initial thin coat of epoxy on the two transoms and the center board trunk:
Amazing how the grain comes out with just one coat - these pictures look glossy but the finish is still very rough (feels like 60 grit sandpaper).
We will continue again next weekend. It will be a challenge with the epoxy dry time - really only giving us two cycles a weekend to do work on it. But the house has plenty of other project to be done to fill the time while we wait.
Total hours into project including unpacking, and assembly about 8. Look for another update next week.
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