Creating the Deck Building Base

This boat is built in two main pieces that we fit everything else into and then attach.  I have already discussed the building of the main part of the hull and now it is time for the deck.  We went through and set up the temporary frames in the exact same way that we set up hull.  What was good about this time is that it took us maybe half as much time to do this because we had already learned how to do it, even though we had a bit of a problem.  Because many, many boats have been built on this floor and done so in a similar manner there was 'no more nails' glue still stuck on the floor that we were unable to scrape off.  We had to fit the building base down anyway and so there were uneven spots for when we used the theodolite.  About station 8 we had a problem.  Because we did not notice that the floor was higher on the port side we did not set the first frames up high enough.  So when we got further aft, station 8 to about 12, the port side had to be lowered down further than it could because the frame was resting on the building base.  (In case I neglected to mention this earlier, when we set up the frames we use a theodolite and a stick with a level line that is attached to a waterline on the boat.  We then use wooden wedges to raise the frames to match the two lines.)  So when we needed to lower the port side of the frames we had a bit of a problem.  We decided that instead of ripping up everything that we had done and redrawing everything and essentially loosing an entire day of work it would considerably easier to just trim the temporary frame on that side.  Two minutes later, we were on our way again.  It was a very simple solution to a problem that was quite serious at the time.

We also built one of the bulkheads into the deck temporary frames.  Station 7 has a bulkhead that takes all the weight from the mast.  This frame is built in to the deck because it was part of the deck as well as a main part of the structure, i.e. bulkheads, floors, girders.