Deck Lines, or Day 18

It's amazing how much time you can kill, just doing something like hand carving bits of wood.

I spent two hours today making the other three toggles for the deck lines and I must say, it was a very enjoyable two hours. It would have been even more enjoyable if I'd known then that I wasn't going to get a call for me to go into work. Another evening off.

The photos below give you an idea of what the deck lines will look like once they're installed on the finished boat. The paddle, or whatever else you want to secure on deck, slips under the toggles, or the lines, then you slide the toggles outward and they tighten. The way I have the paddle in these photos, it will work as an outrigger. That way I can rest one end of the paddle on the beach while I get into the boat and it shouldn't fall over and embarrass me.





You could, if you wanted to, put one in front of the cockpit out to one side and one behind the cockpit to the other side, with floats on the ends and you'd have a pretty stable boat. I suspect it might be a bit harder to turn though.

The skin hasn't turned up yet, but the Cunningham book I ordered from Amazon a week before the skin, arrived early this week. Hopefully, that means the skin will arrive Tuesday. It won't arrive on Monday, since we have a public holiday then.

Total on the job now is 64 hours. I should mention that a lot of the stuff I'm doing on the boat now isn't really necessary. You could build it without a seat, or deck lines, and you don't need to oil or varnish the frame. By leaving those steps out, you could save yourself quite a few hours.