Making sawdust begins

I don't have a garage, so the boat will be assembled in a back yard tent-like shelter, but I do have a work shop in my basement. 

As it's probably too cold to do any epoxy work, I thought I would start the process by cutting the frames, bulkheads, and transom.  By splitting a few of the frames down the center and cutting them as separate pieces (scarfing them back together later), I can get all the frames out of 4 sheets of plywood.  

I carefully drew out each piece on the first two sheets of plywood, then rough cut around them with a jigsaw, making them small enough to carry the first four major pieces into my basement work shop.  That was all the time I had this weekend.  Next weekend I do the fine cutting and maybe epoxy the transom together.

layout in fine ink, rough cut in sharpie marker.

 

Raising the sheet on blocks for cutting.  

four pieces in the basement work shop.

 Although the stack of plywood in the shed looks flat, this Okoume marine grade plywood is highly flexible and it has sagged and warped a little because the supporting saw-horses and frame are only 3 feet by 12 feet in size.  After putting the 4 new pieces on my basement work bench, I added some weights to hopefully flatten them out again during this work week.