This is Mechpen, my newest drawbot. The idea was to have a robot arm that could sketch on a rather large surface. It is a SCARA (Selective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm) robot arm, meaning the robot has a shoulder and...

Here comes the 14th and final part of a mini series in which I paint the water line, add minor bits and pieces and put it in the water.

Only painting this time.

First bit of paint on the boat.

Now attaching the gunwales.

Here I’m glueing in the seat tops and the breast hook.

In this part I’m installing the king plank and the foredeck.

Here I’m starting working on the seats.

In this part I finally put some fibre glass on the outside of the hull.

The sixth part shows how I roll over the boat for the first time.

In part 5 I remove the cable ties and start glueing parts together.

Here comes part 4, where I stitch all pieces together.

In the third part I’m moving to a bigger place to start assembling the hull.

Here comes part 2. Still more woodwork. Stay tuned for next time, when I leave my small workshop and move into a larger, temporary “boatyard”.

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