Evicted...

It finally came time to move my work area out of the family room to the basement...more space, better light,
nice and quiet...and heat.

The cutting and sanding area is still outside. One step at a time.

The real thing...

The quest begins...

The least gratifying (for a woodworker) but likely the most important step to making a very accurate hull is finding lines, and having them altered to the right scale.

One nice byproduct of this step is I begin to learn the hull...the shape. The flow. The feel.  Even Iif I could hand this step off, I doubt I would. The final product would certainly suffer.

The Q32 lines were amazing to work with...

Then it's off to the lumber yard...the material is selected. Choice lengths removed and planed to the proper lift thickness. The water lines are transfered to the lifts.

Then the cuts are made and the lifts glued up.

All the while quality control watches over me...

Echo gets the finishing touches...

Echo is almost ready to go to her new home...I'm proud of this hull. 

Total time to get to this point is 55.5 hours.

A new project...Quest 30/32

Today marks the start of my first race bred boat...I'm excited.

Thanks to the boat owner, and the designer Rodger Martin, I have a nice crisp set of hull lines complete with updates. They'll go to the print shop for enlarging then the woodwork begins.

My assistant Jib is beside himself with excitement about this hull.

Echo....almost a reality

Lacking only a backboard and a couple coats of wax,  Echo is nearing completion.

Echo updates...

Not much new as to the process, but I have a few more pics...the marker lines indicate areas where I have to work on the finish. Once I'm happy with the primer coat, then the Flag Blue is put on.

The Antifouling was picked to compliment the blue. The copper colour (VC17) on my pal's boat just looked awful on the model so we picked a better colour that matched a popular salt water bottom paint.

Sometimes a break from the real boat is required to make a nice presentation