I've posted a few questions in the power boat forums, but I suppose it's time to start my own build thread. Partly to let others see what I'm doing and mostly because I'll be needing a lot of

I got my plans 2 weeks ago and by day 3 had all my marine ply (BS 1088) and epoxy resin, biax tape and cloth and filler.
Jumped straight into drawing the plans out. I don't have a nice big flat table to draw on so I had to draw on the floor. Well after 3 days of drawing my knees started screaming as soon as they saw ply wood sheets

Cut most of my parts out using a circular saw, only used a jigsaw for small cuts as me, a jigsaw and straight lines are not friends.
On Saturday I turned my lounge floor into a butt block laminating area as it's the only area bigger enough with a flat floor to handle the big sheets (My wife was very impressed)
Yesterday I built a basic jig on wheels with the intention of building the normal stich and glue way (hull right way up). Once I was finished it was time to start stiching the bottom panels.
After 2 hours of fighting with the panels, trying to get them to bend and still keep the gaps between them I finally got them together.
And then I looked at the aft section of the bottom

I haven't got a clue how some of the guys manage to build such nice boats using this method

So after an hour of sulking and head scratching I cut all the tie wraps out and went to bed.
This afternoon I redesigned my jig into a not so simple jig and will be building the boat using the traditional jig method (hull upside down).
Transom is mounted (and yes it's at the right angle), I quickly test fitted all the bulkheads and it looks right this time.
Tomorrow I'll fit all the bulkheads and stringers, make sure everything lines up properly and then start fitting the panels.
I'll start posting some pics tomorrow once I have a few that are interesting
There's a boat somewhere in that pile of ply wood.
Shannon