Chesapeake 17 Kayak - Cutting out the bottom panels from the blanks - January 22, 2015

Last night I did not work in Geiger's Boat Shop, instead I caught up on posting the thing I have done so far. This evening I used my Bosch jig saw to cut out the bottom panels. They were clamped together when I cut them out so that they will be nearly identical and mirror images of each other. Here are the panels cut out laying on my work table.

  
View from the bow on the left and from the stern on the right.

This is a close up of the bow and you can see how I cut outside the line. I'll sand down to the line next time and the panels will almost be ready to use. I say almost because this is "stitch and glue" kayak building and I'll be drilling some holes in the edge of the panels for the stitches, which by the way are copper wires. After the bottom panels are sanded down to the line I'm going to start working on making the sheer clamps. I'm going to cut my sheer clams from the 10 foot white pine board I purchased for that purpose.