The boat. In 3D.

With most all individual little pieces ready, meaning the frames, all (but one) of the longitudinals scarfed up and ready, only the stem remains. I actually found some pine (!) floor boards at the local DIY store. I'll have pine wood in the boat after all, just what the design calls for :). The boards are 2cm thick so i'll need to glue up 2 to get to the specified 3cm thickness. After planing, cleaning and gluing it is curing now all clamped up. Here's the before and after view:

Now on to something larger, lining up the frame supports on the strongback. I use a laser level to get everything straight and true. That, and the help of my better half:

And that's me among the empty supports:

From there is it easy (though time consuming) to cross-brace everything for stiffness:

Line up the frames in the correct places (center and water lines aligned  using the laser level, what a fantastic device:) ), trim the excess bracing and you end up with a hull shaped space just waiting to be finished.

All frames are screwed in place (through the plywood of the bulkheads, somewhere inconspicuous, I don't want to have holes in the frames or other visible places) with the exception of the B frame (the one with a 60deg tilt):

For now it sits on a movable carriage waiting to be positioned after the installation of top (or, actually bottom) bracing - the lines must be flowing nicely. Leaving one frame floating leaves me with the possibility to correct some mistakes I may have made when constructing the frames. I'll be eyeballing the curvature of the braces in the worst case if it looks off. But so far so good.

Hasta la pasta, kids. Tot de volgende keer.