If the link works, here's a link to a brief (2-minute) time-lapse video on YouTube of cutting my nesting Eastport Pram in half yesterday. Though I've built quite a few boats over the last 35 years, I never sawed one in half. As John suggests in the builder's manual, it takes a bit of courage, faith, or something...but all went pretty well. Thought someone might get a kick out of it.
Roger Lopata
...when a plan comes together...and a boat comes apart...cleanly, from the look of it!
.....Michael
Funny, I was thinking the same thing. As they used to say on the "A Team", "I love it when a plan comes together".
Having built a few boats, that is freaky. I did notice you left the picture often, for another shot of courage?
Thanks for the video,
Joel
Yes, she came apart cleanly (although, at times, at just the very notion of cutting a boat in half, I thought it was me that might come apart!). There were a few spots where my saw jumped and scratched into the epoxy, but nothing into the wood as far as I can tell, so it should clean up nicely. Sanded down/cleaned up the two bulkheads today and will lay down a coat of epoxy on each face tomorrow.
Expect that the rest of the build will be somewhat less dramatic -- at least I hope so -- and plan to splash her sometime in the spring.