We're back at it with our TotalBoat Sport Dory build and this week Lou introduces us to Willow, his silver lab and new best friend and co-worker at the Open Door Boatshop.
It's time to start building the bottom of our Sport Dory and the first plank to go on is the garboard. Lou gives us a walk-through of how the different layers of cedar bottom planking and carbon fiber and kevlar will overlap and work together to give the bottom extreme strength with little weight and nothing in your way on the bottom of the boat.
Using an adaptation of an earlier patterning technique Lou shows us how he lift the size and shape of the plank off the mold. He then works that plank down to the proper size before scarfing it onto another piece to complete the first garboard plank on the boat.
