Tiller and rudder box

Needed to feel that at least one part of the goat is finished so I planed the staves from the old mast and built the rudder box and tiller. Fun!

Recycling

Got 30 minutes to do a bit of boat building today. Ripped the broken bottom part of my old pram's mast into what will become the tiller of my goat. Feels good that some parts of the old boat will continue sailing even though the boat itself lies on the bottom of a lake in Dalsland. The rest of the mast will probably become the boom of the skiff.

Added some bevels

"I want to go to the garage and build a bit" my son told me today, and who am I to argue? Got two bulkheads beveled using my new Stanley nr 4. Somehow I seems to have lost my old one that used to be my grandfather's (that is probably a criminal offence, so don't tell anyone). Anyway, the new Stanley that everyone says is crap actually did well. It doesn't look as well made as the old ones and it probably isn't, but it's definitely up to the job.

At last!

You might not believe it, but I made progress on the goat today. Transom and two bulkheads glued up. Since I didn't shop around much for wood, I bought sawn timber instead of planed to size. Therefor, all pieces of wood had to be planed with granddad's old plane. Fun, but wood planed to size from the store would had been faster.

Finally some progress

Got some spare time and decided to make the stem. Fun!

Finally some progress

The last boxes with stuff from the old apartment is moved to the new apartment, and there is once again some space for boatbuilding.

Gluing!

Still some plywood parts to cut, but I felt as trying my hands at gluing with epoxy, so that was what I did. I hope I did a passable job, lots of factors that have to be done by feel; consistency of the glue, how much glue to use, how much clamping pressure, etc. I'm not sure the sheets of plywood was as flat on the ground as I would have liked... We will see when the glue have set.