Progress to date - The Hull Planking.

Today marks another big milestone, and this entry is for Roy Mc Bride from CKD Boats in Cape Town, who has taken a keen interest in TIDIDI. It is nice to have someone in the boat building industry do so and Roy asked that I post some pictures as soon as I started with the planking. I recently bought all the 6mm Marine Plywood for the hull and decks from Roy, and the service and wealth of information from Roy has been superb.

Today I fitted the first two strips - only temporarily, in order to check for proper fit and alignment, before glueing permanently in place. This will generally be the process for the first layer, after which the second layer should just follow and therefore go much quicker.