Part 8 – Progress? What progress?

Wow. I can’t believe it’s been almost a year since I last posted here! So, what’s been happening? Quite a lot, really, but also, until recently, in some ways not a lot. Let’s dig into it all and get caught up, shall we? The classified top-secret job in the city was over, and I’d moved back home. Most of what […]

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Part 4 – Stitching the bottom together

27th of January, 2021. Stitching? I thought you said this thing was made out of plywood, not fabric? Yup. I did. One of the techniques for constructing boats from plywood is called “stitch & glue.” Basically, holes are drilled at regular intervals around the edges of the panels, and the panels are then “stitched” together using either pieces of stiff […]

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Part 3 – Construction (finally) begins!

After a series of adventures involving, amongst other things, moving all our stuff into storage, several weeks living in a small 1 bedroom apartment whilst house-sitting a menagerie of pets (comprising of a deaf cat, an overly aggressive (and loud!) lorikeet, a blue-tongue lizard, a Japanese Fighting Fish, a catfish, and a bunch of other minor fish; thankfully the two […]

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Part 1 – In the beginning – dreaming of a dinghy

Around a year or so ago, having decided I wanted a hard dinghy for the junk-rigged Benford Sailing Dory I plan on building, I began investigating my options. It turns out that new dinghies aren’t cheap. You can buy a reasonably decent secondhand car for less! So I began seriously considering building my own. After all, I intended on building […]

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