April 2021: Building kit delivered, let’s build the frames!
On April 9th a big lorry pulled up in our driveway, did someone order a building kit? Laying at the end of the drive way, nice and stacked, it did not look like a whole lot. Once we sorted everything out and put it in our garage it looked totally different: Wood… Everywhere… Luckily spring just started and with the nice and sunny weather ahead, we constructed most of the frames outside in our garden. As suggested by other builders, we started off with frame E, followed by frame A and the transom. These frames we pretty straight forwards with limited room for error, since these frames could be fitted in just one way. Frame B, C and D were more challenging in getting all the measurements right. When we looked closer to our assembled (and glued…) B frame, we noticed that is was asymmetrical. We checked it again, and something went wrong indeed. Since we really did not want to see troubles mounting the stringers, there was no other option that to carefully chiseling ...