Here are a couple pictures taken in the last couple weeks. Yes, that’s a really, really long plank that John is putting on the boat. And yes, it’s really twisted to sit properly on the frames. It is the garboard strake and it’s about 27′ long.

David is making white oak butt blocks. Here he’s got a stack of 3 in front of him and looks like he’s having way too much fun. He’s done 40 of these so far. Each one has to be fitted between the frames and hollowed to match the inside of the hull. They’re all slightly different because of that. He replaced the old ones and of course all the new planking require them too.