progress is still happening slowly, a little every day. once the ribs reached the middle the model turned around.
the solid oak for the prow arrived. Once I managed to find my big vice the skeg was bent up from 0.5mm brass sheet, using a bending jig to get to about 75 degrees each side, then using a 1/4" thick steel bar to form the corners to 90 degrees.
then I found a wooden slatted Venetian blind, this was immediately disassembled, and the plan was made to use this for the ribs, a second was found at a charity shop for £2, then they were ripped into rib sizes on the table saw, the wood is basswood (lime / linden), and this wood is a very good one for ribs, so I have changed over to using these.
some of the offcuts from these blinds have been temporarily clamped on the hull to get the shape for the front section, here it changes from convex at one bulkhead, to concave further forward, each rib is markedly different to each other, so they need to be formed in place., so faux planks were clamped in place to act as the formers, now I just need to form 2 ribs for each position.