Oops, a few mistakes but I caught it early and fiberglass will cover these extra holes anyway

I’ve spent the weekend lofting my plans onto the panels for the bottom and sides of the boat and finally have everything marked off and ready to cut.   This process involved making 1′ station lines across the boards then plotting points on offsets either from the bottom of the panel for the sides or the center line for the bottom.   The corners were a bit tricky on the sides since they involved offsets from the bottom as well as the side (transom) or the last 7′ line (bow).  I went through and re-measured all the offsets on the station lines  on both panels to make sure they were golden.  After I got the lines drawn in for the sides I started on the bottom.    With the bottom lines in and looking good I measured the arc length of the bottom, 89 3/4″ on both sides, perfect.   Then I measured the arc length on the side panel which should have been 90″.  Nope, it was 87 5/8″, what the heck?

So, I spent a half hour going back over all the measurements and found I had not double checked the bow and transom points on the side, my transom was fine but the bow was off – I had measured the horizontal offset wrong and had to move things to the correct spot, re-measured the arc length and had to move it just a smidge more to get it right.  Whew, glad I didn’t start cutting before triple checking all these measurements and making sure to check arc lengths.

Now onto cutting these panels and then starting to stitch them together before lofting and cutting out the transom and bow panels.  At this rate I should have something resembling a hull later in the week.