One phone call and two days after, a replacement turned up and I've just finished marking out.
Firstly - I am known to be able to measure twice and get it wrong on both occasions. Secondly, I have just about mastered Metric measuring only to find that the plans are in Imperial.... Fortunately, much of my canoe-building / DIY house fixing time is spent in North America so, whilst I don't really enjoy eighths and sixteenths, conceptually I can cope.
Thirdly, the plans we have are scans of hand-drawn plans (still no takers for copyright but I found this link on line to a Nessmuk building workshop at the Pitt-Rivers museum in Oxford. Perhaps they could tell me about the copyright on the plans?) so some of the writing is a bit blurred. I contacted my distant helper who told me that dimension A - H is 14 and 1/8 inches.
The first mistake was not to notice that the left-hand edge of the plan drawing is in fact the mid-line of the sheet of ply. Silly of me, but I did warn you about my measuring issues!!
I ended up laying masking tape along all the measuring lines and only marking the cutting lines on to the ply. I don't know what finish I want for this boat yet so it's less sanding to remove the unwanted lines (and easier to remedy all my following errors!).
I used a piece of strip aluminium to bend a fair curve for the bow and stern - which meant I could transfer the curve from one to another - and drove dress-making pins (Shhhhh!) into the ply to bend a lightweight glass-fibre rod to make the curve H - E - H.All this was done on the dining table -
Seriously need to borrow another Work-Mate for the cutting out - and find a nice, new jig-saw blade......
Maybe Monday if I'm very lucky. Also need to install pulleys in the garage ceiling to store it from.
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