Now that I have working prototypes for the pedal drive, rudder, and seat, I can turn my attention back to the easy part: building the actual boat.
This is the white oak that we chainsaw milled last month. The grain orientation was wrong for what I’m doing so I started by resawing it into billets and then flipping it 90°. It’s nice and wet with pretty good grain so it should work well. I use the Freud ripping blade for the resawing but I switch to a thin kerf Makita circular saw blade to cut the ribs to save material. Does anyone else think that the Freud ripping blade looks like some sort of Klingon war weapon?
Next I rounded off all the stringers and set up the stems to check the stem angle and the rocker.
After that we cut the ribs to length and round of them over. By the end of tomorrow, this should look like a canoe. Feels good to be making progress again.
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