Boat progress

Things are rolling along with the boat. Fortunately I have photographic evidence: these are about a week old, but are still a good status snapshot, since most work since then has been on small and nearly invisible components.

First, the centerboard. The lights appear to be huddled around in fascination, but in fact are trying to keep the temperature high enough so the epoxy cures instead of freezes. The bottom of the centerboard is at left, and the dark patch near the middle is about 45 pounds of lead.
The whole thing weights approximately 9,000,000 pounds, and will break anything it knocks into, including me.

Next we have "my" bottom. That's right, it's hilarious. Here it is, half-cut out of the plywood:
This also shows the incredible neatness and organized nature of the garage. Don't be intimidated!

Once the bottom was cut out I had something that was almost a boat-shape for the first time on this entire ding-danged project. This was so exciting I decided to prop up the frames for a very rough 3D view of the basic shape:
This is looking aft; the thing shaped like a stop sign at the top left of the image is the transom, or the very back part of the boat. There will be more frames than this, but they're a little tricky to prop up. Another view, looking forward:

The heart-shaped piece is actually a bulkhead just aft of the pointy bow. I'll eventually cut an opening in this piece for a round hatch. Since I don't actually have said hatch yet, it seemed safest not to go cutting holes in expensive plywood.

This was an exciting moment, seeing the big shape together like this. I'm almost at the point where I can start assembling these pieces like a dinosaur skeleton.