Ice Broken

Tuesday morning I broke the ice by putting a pencil to the wood.  I spent about an hour and a half total in the past two days cleaning a space, collecting myself, and drawing out the beginnings of the keel.  I hope now that I have started I can try and do a little bit of work each day as I am dreaming of having it in the water sometime before the ice forms 2012. The pictures below show me in action. I used some t-pins to hold my faring stick on the marks while drawing my lines.  My plan for tomorrow is to build a couple sawhorses, get this sheet off the ground and start cutting out my keel. 

Introduction

Hello. My name is Ryan Wilson, and this blog is going to document the build of my first boat (well, that a human can sit in, that is).  I've been throwing the boat building idea around for a couple of years and I happened to stumble upon the Berkeley Engineering site, and I decided upon building a Perfect 10.  I hope my years of do-it-yourself-ing and building radio control aircraft and boats will give me an edge. 

It's been about 6 months since I decided on building the Perfect 10.  Since then I have ordered and received my plans from Berkeley Engineering, as well as I have acquired about 75% of the materials needed.  There are so many things to think of with a project like this, from all the different options (acx ply, marine ply, paint colour etc. etc.)  I decided to go with douglas fir marine plywood, and solid douglas fir for my stem and keel stiffeners.  The epoxy I'll be using for the build is Epoxy-Plus and GL-10 superglue developed and distributed by Clark Craft.

Much more to come.  Many things to think of as time goes on.  I hope to update as often as possible.  Of course any questions or comments are more than welcome.

This isn't the first Perfect 10 tugboat build to be documented. Todd Wiechman has been working on his Perfect 10 and documenting his build in fine detail.  Thanks to him, many of my questions have already been answered. Please visit his blog http://toddsminitugbuilding.blogspot.com/ but please, don't forget about mine!

 Until next time, here are some pictures of my trailer (built over my March Break holiday) soon to be converted to hold the Ferrous Pony, and a few photos of the Clark Craft epoxy.