Maybe I need a life😋

About 50% complete on frame, and I haven’t been trying! Just fiddling here n there in evenings and on weekends. I need to cut more rib stock and cut 4 more pieces to round out the ribs shown (keeping several pieces aside near the steamer for the inevitable broken rib.) But I am just about ready to steam ribs and fit the rest of the frame.

I’m really digging how well this one is coming along. That bow cutwater is just screaming for speed and waves. Its a touch oversized right now; it will get trimmed to fit when I am fitting the keel.

There are two ‘ribs’ in place in the pic. Those are plastic strips I use to get a better feel for the shape and adjust the rib cuts as needed. I like what I’m seeing so no adjustment needed. That may change when I see them all in place. Or not, I’ll know soon enough.

It may be I have a talent for this, or I’m being gifted with that talent temporarily.

But I’m having fun and not sittin’round bored to tears, and thats good enough, right?

Update: weighed frame at this point. Not including ribs, 13.8 pounds. Ribs might add another 4, skin and dope another 6 or 7, plus the coaming and hardware, I’m likely looking at a 35 pound kayak when its all finished. Not to shabby for a boat that will be ( almost) 17′ long. Still half that of my Perception at 67# empty.