Stella's deck has begun. Lucy can almost float.

Marie stands around a lot.....

and smiles a lot, too!

Here, Marie is showing me up by adding some Bloodwood to the bottom of Lucy's hull. It'll be very cool.

scribing her keel line in order to cut it.
Cutting the keel line with the japanese pull saw. Tedious and no room for errors!

The saddle. I built one that can just be placed onto the strongback since we have limited room in the small garage.

Sitting pretty. Ready to go.
Here I'm trimming the glass down to the sheer strip. Then I will mask it off in order to keep the deck and hull seperated. After the deck is built, it will be taken off in order to sand and glass the inside of the hull.

Stella's first deck strip is laid into place.

I have Western Red cedar, Alaskan Yellow cedar and a strip of Bloodwood. The deck will be really fun to build.
Stella's deck is taking shape. Once I strip the deck, I'll cut out most of it in order to inlay a Peruvian Black Walnut design.