Read the plans CAREFULLY.

There's nothing quite like the realisation that the piece of wood you have spent so much time on is just plain wrong. You know the sort of thing, cutting two left hand side pieces.

The little section in marked in red in the bottom left is actually part of the side piece. I read the plans as if it were a chine, or longitudinal member. So now I have two side pieces which are each about an inch short.

Oh well. It's all learning and practice I suppose.

The plans for the boat come from Glen L.

The first problem....And Solution

While tracing the Transom Frames, the notch for the sheer clamp is different to the rest. It's shown with a small shaded area, as shown here to the right.

On the glen l web site forums Graham Knight came up with the fact that the transom is angled, so the sheer clamp, while horizontal would not be perpendicular to the transom frame.

This makes it most likely that the plans are showing the slope of the notch by marking the front and back of the transom frame where they need to be cut.

Given that the remaining fames are vertical, and have no similar shaded area, I think that I am going to go with this. I may mock up a paper model to convince myself the angles are correct first though. Measure four or five times, cut once.

The Plans

Maybe I should go back a little.

The plans for the boat come from Glen L

They have a good selection of plans, a forum, and can supply most of the parts, fasteners, glues etc if you want. There are others who sell plans, but I liked the plans for the Glen l 14.

Since they are in the US and I am in Ireland, then I'll be buying parts and bits locally where possible.

I did buy the bronze screws from them since they have a nice kit that you can order, instead of having to source the various different screws locally. (Easier said than done.)