This is it! It's finally time to take our TotalBoat Sport Dory off the jig and flip it over! We have put all the planks on it the boat now, the final two had to go on in two pieces with a scarf in the middle because they had such a radical twist.
We're going to rivet the seams in between each frame but in order to do that we need access to both the inside and the outside of the boat. It would have been too much trouble to crawl under the boat each time we needed to fasten a rivet so that's why we chose to screw fasten to the frames.
The mold will have to come apart in several pieces but we're not too worried about that we could always re-create it and we would probably put more stations in it if we were going to build another one so we could have more area to attach to when planking.
With the boat flipped over and the mold off you can finally see the very cool interior of our Sport Dory. The frames run directly into the bottom where we routed a slot for them. This keep the bottom free of any obstructions for your feet and makes it much easier to bail.
There are still some things to do, we need to attach rails, seat risers, oar locks and a few other things but we're getting very close. Can't wait to take it out for a row in some heavy seas!
