All panels attached

Two weeks of gluing panels are behind and the form of the boat starts to be easier to visualize now. 
We started with the upper panels as they were easier to attach and possible to press with clams from both sides.

For the lower panels we needed to fix some extra support and use different types of wedges to get all surfaces tight enough for the gluing to be successful.

Here below we have the last panel glued. By the way if I haven't mentioned it earlier, the panel material I use is a new innovative boat planking material made by Vendia Woods with the surface of mahogany. Vendia is also writing a blog where you can read more about the material and of different boat projects utilizing their products.

Next step was to start forming the back corner parts and the bow. First tricky thing was to figure out the radius of outer surfaces.

I started by cutting and roughly forming the parts with the circular saw. These parts are made of massive mahogany.

The actual forming was made with the hand plane. Mahogany is quite a hard material so it was good work-out for couple of hours.

I ended the day with attaching the corner parts and the bow. 

Next week will be filled with sanding and some more sanding to get the hull ready for some surface treatment.

Please come back next week to see what the sanded hull looks like.

Back from the Christmas break

We left all our boat projects resting at the school for the Christmas break.

On the second last day of the year I got a phone call from the courier that they would like to bring me some boat planks I ordered two weeks earlier from Vendia Woods. I was positively surprised by the fast delivery of this late Christmas "present". 

  First thing today when we started the spring semester was to unpack the package from Vendia Woods.

I found some nicely smelling mahogany boat planking. This is the material I will use when continuing with my boat project. 

We started immediately to model the sides and the transom and got quite far already the first day. Tomorrow we will continue and glue some of the planks.