Monday, July 20
More planks today. We put three more planks on each side of the boat today. We have the keel, centerboard, outer stem and skeg ready to go on as soon as the planks are finished. There are 11 planks on each side and we have 9 of them on so tomorrow should be last day of planking. The planks are looking good there is one that has a little bit of a strange shape on one plank but it the same on both sides of the boat so I assume it is the way it supposed to be. It is amazing how much of the shape of the plank is done strictly by eye. Geoff calls them the money edge. It is what you see when you see the boat and makes you want to spend the big money to buy one. In case you are interested in purchasing one, the boat we are building sells for $25,000. It has about $4,000 in materials and the rest is labor.
After dinner Will, Tim and I went harbor touring. We went to Center Harbor home of Brooklin Boat Yard and Benjamin River home of Doug Hylan. There are so many pretty boats it is just hard to take all of them in. There are a lot of very large, very expensive boats and a lot of small expensive boats. Doug has a very nice office on piles over the water. Just enough space for him and his stuff. He wins the award for the coolest office on the planet.
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