Making sawdust....

Robert came by today with his beautiful daughter, Eliane. Reducing the 10'x0.75"x8" boards to various sized stringers & chine logs is a job for more than one person. With both Robert and Eliane on hand to help, we cut all the parts for two boats in a little over an hour with my table saw in the driveway.

I bought "select" grade pine stock from Builder's Warehouse, and I had bought two 10' boards extra above Eric's Bill of Materials. Figured that the knots & grain problems with "select" grade wood would necessitate a few rejects. They did.

Before we started on ripping the wood, I gave everyone ear plugs and introduced Eliane to Roz, our gentle 13 month old Husky/Shepherd puppy. Eliane stuck with Robert & I for a good 45 minutes before she got a splinter in her finger, which necessitated a visit with nurse Roz after a session with Doctor Papa. I was surprised, Eliane's attention span during noisy wood sawing was better than Thomas' would have been. Thomas opted for a third week at Science and Tech camp at the University of Ottawa this week.

Both sets of raw (wood) materials are now complete and Robert, Eliane and Eric are starting Eliane's build tomorrow at his house. For future builds, the only slightly complex saw work was cutting the angled chine logs, but I dusted off my trigonometry before Robert & Eliane arrived to calculate the size a straight blank that could make two chine logs in one pass through the saw.

Eliane is naming her boat "Plouffe-plouffe", she has colors all picked out and she's enthusiastic about getting a "tippy boat" just like her dad who singlehands a modified 29er on the lake they live on.

Just for the record, here's the designer specified cutting today for ONE boat:

qty    description
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8    0.75 x 0.75 x 10' stringers
8    0.75 x 0.50 x 10' stringers
5    1 x 0.75 x 0.475 x 10' with 35 degree cut (I'll post a diagram later) chine logs
1    8 x 0.75 x 6' board for daggerboard & rudder

We actually allocated 10 of each of the stringers and 8 of the chine logs per boat so there was replacements if any were rejected due to knots etc. All measurements in inches unless marked as feet (').