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Message: <blockquote data-quote="typed by ben" data-source="post: 330339" data-attributes="member: 11717">mmmmmmmmmmmmoving right along.  the boat has moved into the garage since the sun is going down very early, and im moving into the fabrication stages.  easier access to my tools and good light.  so i went through the looking glass today and started cutting up the boat.  i have officially passed the point of no return.  i leveled the boat out independent of the trailer and dropped a broadcast laser into the center of the hull, marked my lines on the stringers, and cut.[ATTACH=full]57226[/ATTACH]this was cut with an angle grinder and a normal metabo disc.  i scored the lines first, then cut through the boxed portions.  after that i drilled out the rivets.  the stringers pulled away from the hull ever so slightly, allowing a little clearance.  i then went back to the cutting disc, working slowly and keeping the disc moving so it never had a chance to dig.  that technique worked very well as i didnt even touch the hull.  after a little cleanup i felt even MORE emboldened and decided to started cutting some of my material.  this is 1" .050 square tube.  nothing too crazy to see- just cut to length and formed by hand along to roughly match the hull profile.[ATTACH=full]57227[/ATTACH]the funny thing was just how out of wack these boats are made.  some of these stringers arent even close to square- one point on the port side of the hull may be 3/4" out of the same point on the starboard side.  that works in the full cartesian grid, meaning that any designs i had on cutting out square pieces and using geometry can be eliminated.this is gonna have to be built using the time consuming and aggravating guess and check method.  oh well, at least its started.   :mrgreen:</blockquote>

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