For those who can read a dxf file, here are the working drawings we're using to make the bulkheads and temporary moulds. There’s a certain element of the time-honoured practice of “make it first, design it later” in what we’re doing. For example, we keep changing little things as we find out how things work out most economically with our sheets of plywood and the yellow cedar that we’re going to be using for framing. So I'll add finished drawings after we've used them to make the components, not before.

Hi David, Annie. I'm being denied access to the last two images, error 403. Can't remember what that means! 'Annie Wielding Took' works fine.

Having followed the SibLim posts it is marvellous to see your dream coming true, I had the impression it was more of a distant possibility, so to see you cutting sheets of ply - WOW.  I do hope that Fantail readily finds a new home and the project does not falter if that it is not so.  I am sure I would enjoy owning her, though not so convenient to pop over for a look.  That said she is short of a hull and I have spotted a catamaran ripe for conversion, so who knows, finally time for me to top dreaming?

All the best.

It would be nice to have you helping out with some of the big jobs, but better still to hear that you are going to build your own boat.  I'd love to see a variation on the theme of my SibLim. 

I see nothing worrying about 'starting to get used to, and enjoying not living under the shackles and bondage of employment'.  I've pretty much managed to live like that all my life.  Remember, the motto is: retire now, work later (and with any luck you won't need to do much work!)

We're busily making a set of parts for all the bulkheads. At stations 3 & 4, the bulkheads take 2 1/2 sheets of plywood, and we'll be butt-strapping them together, with one butt incorporated into the bilgeboard case setup on the port side; the other butt will be in the doorway, so there will be two short butt straps only. At station 6, the companionway, the bulkhead is from two sheets of plywood, with their inner edges 610mm apart, forming the companionway and the access under the cockpit. At station 1, the bulkhead is still big enough to need to be made from two sheets, but at station 0, the bulkhead is much smaller, and will come out of half a sheet. At station 8, where the outboard is mounted, the bulkhead comes out of one sheet, on its side. At stations 2, 5 and 7, there is no point in making a permanent bulkhead in the setup, and we're making up temporary moulds from MDF, except for the piece under the cabin sole, which is acting as a floor, holding the two sides of the boat together.