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I got this kit from Dry-Dock (thanks guys) for $170 with free shipping. I received the kit yesterday, Friday, August 15th, 2025 and did not pay any tariffs or import fees. Mostly these are just random shots of the progress, but I do have a couple of notes.
These are H6, they are meant to be used in the slots of the keel for frames 1 and 2 to locate them, but it's kinda hard to figure out how they go in..
They go in with the clean wood sitting sideways, centered on the keel. I checked them against the frames and this was the way they fit.
There was a small gap of maybe .2-.3mm in the skarf of the stem, I used PVA and sanding dust to fill it.
One thing I noticed in the keelson is that the laser cutting seems skewed off 90°. This is actually two pieces glued together, but the slots for the frame members are skewed off perpendicular to the keel. It took a bit of work to bring them square, and the frames are just a little loose now, but the slots are on the bottom of the keelson so it shouldn't be noticeable. I think the makers laserhead is slightly skewed in one direction (let's call it the X axis) because the other direction is square (let's call it Y axis).
I've spent about 10 hours on the kit today, ADHD win. It's been really fun so far.
Tomorrow I need to break out the disc sander and my Foredom rotary tool. I need to taper the keelson at the front and back, and then contour the insides of the frames I have built.
These are H6, they are meant to be used in the slots of the keel for frames 1 and 2 to locate them, but it's kinda hard to figure out how they go in..
They go in with the clean wood sitting sideways, centered on the keel. I checked them against the frames and this was the way they fit.
There was a small gap of maybe .2-.3mm in the skarf of the stem, I used PVA and sanding dust to fill it.
One thing I noticed in the keelson is that the laser cutting seems skewed off 90°. This is actually two pieces glued together, but the slots for the frame members are skewed off perpendicular to the keel. It took a bit of work to bring them square, and the frames are just a little loose now, but the slots are on the bottom of the keelson so it shouldn't be noticeable. I think the makers laserhead is slightly skewed in one direction (let's call it the X axis) because the other direction is square (let's call it Y axis).
I've spent about 10 hours on the kit today, ADHD win. It's been really fun so far.
Tomorrow I need to break out the disc sander and my Foredom rotary tool. I need to taper the keelson at the front and back, and then contour the insides of the frames I have built.