Over the past few days we stitched the main hull pieces together: It is starting to look like a boat now. 😄

We assembled the mold for the hull and placed the keelson inside: While we were scarfing the longer plywood hull pieces:

Today we melted lead and poured it into the compartments for the ballast in the keel as well as a weight in the centerboard. These will be covered in resin and fiberglass to contain it and reinforce the compartments.

Assembling the keel port, where the centerboard slides inside. Keel nose was made by gluing pieces of wood together and grind in shape with a table saw. Laying out the parts on a table to confirm the dimensions before gluing them together.

This will be the centerboard Making a rabbet on the edge. Glueing the centerboard together with thickened resin. We received the rest of the timber for the boat this afternoon.

 We are starting to build the PocketShip from plans. All of the plywood parts are now cut and we are moving on to build the keel.