| Prior to many steps (gunwale installation and all interior
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| locker and seat cleats) it's important to straighten
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| the boat first.
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| To do that I like to drop a temporary, trapezoid-shaped former
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| into the center of the boat (if you built my way you have a few
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| of these still hanging around), on a layout line (so it's at
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| right angles to the long centerline of the boat).
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| That trapezoid (not shown in this photo) gives you something to
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| sight to. The transom will seldom be square. To hold it square,
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| run a come-along from stem to the long end of the tweaked transom,
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| and fiddle with it until the rear end is square to the long
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| axis of the boat again. Then install the various seat cleats, locker
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| partitions, etc. By the time you get all those parts glued in place,
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| then the boat will stay square. On the other hand, if you glue
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| that stuff in to a boat still out of square, you'll end up with a
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| permanently crooked boat. I've seen a few like that. They still row
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| just fine. But looking at a boat like that makes you feel like you
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| spent too much time at the bar.
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Sandys one man
bisquit jointed honeycombe
boattailbottom
boxjoint in bottom
centerAseat
chalk platform fitting
honeycombe platform
locker lid
locker lids
noStitch
straightening
visqueen platform fitting