looking more like a boat
The peapod is coming along. We have the garboard planks plus three broads on each side, and in this photo I'm spiling the fourth broad (making a pattern out of thin plywood that will then be traced onto the cedar plank).
Each plank gets riveted to the one before, which means one person stands outside the boat and holds the bucking iron over the nail head while another person kneels under the boat to nip off the nail and then peen it over the rove. It's pretty cramped under the boat, but I moved some of the supports around last week so it's more spacious than it was. In this photo, there are now four broads on each side, but the last one on the right side hasn't been riveted yet:
Each plank gets riveted to the one before, which means one person stands outside the boat and holds the bucking iron over the nail head while another person kneels under the boat to nip off the nail and then peen it over the rove. It's pretty cramped under the boat, but I moved some of the supports around last week so it's more spacious than it was. In this photo, there are now four broads on each side, but the last one on the right side hasn't been riveted yet:
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