Starting the Adventure

I am building a boat in the garage. The wood parts are CNC cut and came from B&B Yacht Designs, a shop in North Carolina. https://bandbyachtdesigns.com/ My beloved and I visited B&B in March as we were driving north from Florida. I hadn't yet decided to build and wanted to see their shop.

The parts came via freight truck and we picked up the two crates at the depot here in Rhode Island. You can see the large pieces leaning up against a wall and the smaller pieces on top of the assembly table we made out of 3/4 inch plywood sheets with folding tables underneath.

The first step in the build is to make frames. The pieces have letters and numbers printed on them. The plywood bits are cut from big plywood sheets using a CNC router. Because it would be hard to control a lot of little pieces, the router is set up to cut manageable sections of wood pieces with little tabs connecting them. I had to cut apart the tabs. At the suggestion of previous builders, I used a Japanese pull saw to make the cuts as smooth as possible. Later I used a bench sander to get rid of any irregularities.