I didn’t take as many pictures as I would have liked during the process, mostly because it was with my phone (again… sorry… I’ll remember my camera soon!)
Took us a few hours to get the cradles stable and then to level the boat using a series of water-levels (tubes placed at correct points) and then verifying with laser-level.
Once that was done, holes were cut. Here’s port-aft :
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I’d like to take a moment to thank Fred again; not only for showing up at 0800 Saturday morning to help me and dad spin the hull around and get upright, but also letting us utilize his wood-shop for an hour or so later that night when I had the motivation to start building the beam mount jigs and wanted accurate tools for the job. Thanks!
The morning started out emptying the garage and dad and I were able to get the main hull spun around some on our own.
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Received a call Friday from the freight warehouse saying our crate arrived. The catch is they closed at 5pm and are only open Monday-Friday. With permission from work, I left a few hours early, met dad and went to the warehouse. Within a matter of 10 minutes, we had the beams loaded in the back of my truck and were headed back to the house… Of course, I took no pictures.
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