Rob Shaw 5.5m

In March we started building a yacht designed by Rob Shaw, one of the teachers here.  It is 5.5m LOA with a 2.4m beam.  The boat has a fairly open cockpit which I really like.  It has a plumb bow and has a strip-planked 8mm thick western red cedar hull with the topside and deck made of foam with varying densities and thickness.  All of my future posts will be about the procedure, problems and answers in its construction.