killing it

we laid out where we want to chop out in the middle, then spray painted the gunnels so we won't accidentally chop through them.

using the freshly sharpened adze and Beowulf, we've just been killing the inside. today i worked for about an hour and a half, and took out a section of the inside about two feet long to a depth of about eight inches with the adze, then took Beowulf to it and knocked out about another foot to foot and a half of length down to the same depth.

it seems weird that the inside is (so far) taking less time than the outside. you'd think it was the other way around. my guess is that it's because of what we need to take out. on the outside we were trying to bring it down to a specific line, and so we had to be fairly precise. on the inside though, we're just taking out as much wood as we can right now, and once we get down to almost done we'll be more precise, so right now we're just swinging away and taking out huge chunks of wood really fast.

with wednesday afternoon and principals day coming up we should be able to get a ton of work done on the inside, and hopefully finish up the inside by next week, then start shaping the hull.