Astern and a stem, plus our first mistake.

We have now got to the point where mistakes will alter the actual shape or length of the boat, so it's important to get it right.

So, we decided to glue the Sternpost in place and promptly got it wrong!

There is a discrepancy between one of the plans and the instructions, we had to make a judgement call. The conversation went something like this.

Chris - "If we should fail?"
Joe - "We fail, but screw your courage to the sticking place, and we will not fail"
Chris "Oh, ok".

(Actually that's a conversation between Lady Macbeth and her old man, thanks again to my dad, who was also my English teacher at school).

So we screwed, or clamped, our sternpost to the sticking place and left it to dry. I actually had second thoughts overnight and emailed Alec Jordan of Jordan boats, who has been so helpful in the past. The dilemma was obviously too much for him too, he replied asking for my phone number and was then rushed to hospital with chest pains.

Again, the glue dried wonderfully, and our mistake was made permanent. Based on current calculations, the boat will be 4 inches too short. For those of you watching this in metric, that's 3lb 2oz.

Rather poor picture of the sternpost glued to the
hog in the wrong place.

Tune in tomorrow when I will tell you how I got us out of this mess.

Oh, and Alec, get well soon, We kind of need you to.