My first experience of boat building! Around 8 hours working with Oliver in the workshop cutting out hull shapes and stations, taping and setting up the next hull station in line.
Some stuff that needed cutting out and joining to start with - Ollie will know what bits of boat these are.
We had planned to modify the side of the house to more of an Express style configuration. This would be a significant (at least in terms of appearance) departure from the plans and resulted in some involved discussion as to what line we should take and the exact curving sweep that would look the sexiest. I liked the narrower sleeker line of a Tides whilst Oliver seemed to prefer a more dramatic curve like a Buddy Davis. This is what we ended up with:
The express style house sides joined up:
Next job was cutting the notches for the stringers in the next station down the line (E?), followed by mounting it on the jig.
Oliver looks over the newly set up station
We finished cutting out the station after that but could not get it set up on the strongback before it was time to go.
Ollie will fill in the more technical aspects later I'm sure.
In the meantime, here's something to keep all of us motivated. I just love this pretty little custom express - not least the surgically white, minimal maintenance exterior finish. It's a long road to go yet and guys like Peter will get there long before us. But this is the carrot that leads us all on.
Incidentally the blue marlin in our fishing area, unlike that tiddler, often will comfortably exceed the beam of Ollie's CC25.
Sweet! That just shows I don't get out enough. 
But by golly it's a marlin!