Steps

It is weird; how for months there is no desire at all to even clean up the workspace, let alone do any work on the little Sherpa ship.

But somehow yesterday and today it was there. The feeling inside, the elephant we cannot control: the "must work on little ship" feeling.

So the shop was "cleaned" and organized a bit first. Then today the starboard and port (half) stringers were fitted and glued into place.

As you can see the second stringers are half stringers; i cut 1x1 cm stringers and let them soak in water and formed the curve (instead of letting it flat). The little ship has a very bendy hull so to prevent snapping and splinters flying around I opted for a pre-bend of the pitch-pine.  I also hope to make the fitting of the other half easier because they will already have something to clamp to.

The stringers hanging from the ceiling will have to be patient...