Bob Miller (reaching into boat) gets some help in an early stage of building his Core Sound 17 sailboat
The Oriental version of a barn-raising is of course a boat-building.
Bob Miller is building a "Core Sound 17" sailboat in his garage. The boat was designed by "B&B Yacht Designs," located in nearby Vandemere. See the B&B webpage for this boat here.
Bob had cut out the various parts of the hull using 1/4 inch plywood, and needed some extra hands to hold the pieces in place while he "stitched" them together with copper wire... See the picture below for a better view of the stitches (they look like knots every six inches or so) on the bow and hull:
In the future, the seams will be glued together and the stitches removed... this is typically referred to as "stitch and glue" boat building.
I will follow the progress of Bob's boatbuilding, and update here.
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