Laminating the beams

Many thanks to Mr W. the Design and Technology teacher at the girl's secondary school, who helped me saw two very large straight beams into a pile of long bendy strips - now I'm gluing the strips back together in a (hopefully) graceful curve. These will link the main hull to the float.

Everything else is this build has been fair easy for an amateur builder, but sawing three inch thick planks requires more than hand-tools!

Work is still going very slowly due to family pressures, and the start of the sailing season, but we have managed to replace the foredeck and patch another rotten hole in the hull of our Miracle dinghy and give it a coat of paint and varnish so it's looking better than I've ever seen it before. Kathy and I even got to sail it last week.