The decks are beginning to take shape. In the woodworking world they always say that you can never have too many clamps... in the boat building world we say that you never have enough clamps!
Part of what increases the complexity of this process are the patterns we are trying to achieve. Leslie has lots of common sense so her pattern is a lot more simple than mine... she intends to embellish with a little applique. All mine is in the inlay look... the 'inlay' stripes are made up of 5 pieces of wood a dark piece of 1/4" wide cedar in the middle with a strip of 1/8" white cedar either side and a piece of dyed black maple veneer, 1/40" thic on the outside of that. It is used to separate the different patches on my pattern. It is more distinct in the later pictures.
And then we added some fiber glass...
And then we begin the coaming.
