I have spent some time on the holidays working on the ship. I have finished transferring the outline of the paper templates on plywood. Then I started to cut them out. That was a difficult and time-consuming process. Even a minor inaccuracy in cutting would lead to a distortion of the hull. So, if I had made a mistake, I would have to redo the whole part. Fortunately, I had to do that only once when I noticed a crack in one of the ribs (the parts perpendicular to the axis of the hull). Then I assembled the hull without gluing the parts together in order to see whether they fit in properly. Of course for the first time most of the parts did not fit well. So I had to slightly adjust their shape and assemble them together again to see whether my adjustments improved the situation. I repeated this procedure a couple of times until each part was finally in the right place.
Then I was ready to glue the ribs to the keel. I had to be very careful because I used super glue that is very strong. It would be very hard to remove a part that has already been glued.
I have not finished the gluing yet (on the photo only half of the ribs are already glued).
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