On Saturday, Chris came round to the boatshed (my garage) to get a scarph joint done. We were determined to have a crack at one, so that we could more accurately estimate how long it would take us to complete the hull.
As we removed the ply sheets from the pallet, it struck us that we had nowhere to put the planks to glue them together. I am pretty sure that an idea came to both of us simultaneously. Although the idea to say - "I've just had a brilliant idea!!" was definitely Chris's idea first. Hence, he can stick a flag in it and claim it as his.
Anyway, the net result is that we decided to build a table using the pallet and some bits of MDF we had left from a stem template. Given our new found woodworking skills, what would have been a 4th form design project at Acklam Hall School, (of the famous Mike O'Neill toast rack) was just another job to knock off in our quest to avoid actually building a boat.
So, an hour or so later, it's hard to tell as time really does fly when you are talking about making stuff, we had knocked out a really useful scarphing table.
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| This is me, cutting out the top of our patented scarphing table |
Anyway, we did eventually glue some wood together. But that'll be in tomorrow's blog. You'll just have to wait.
By the way, based on the time it took us to scarph the first plank, we should have the boat finished by Christmas. Next year, or the one after. And we'll have 48 tables.
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