Mast making Pt 2

My 10' 4X4 is looking more hexadecagonal. This involved drawing circles of various sizes on the 4 original faces, dividing those circles into four, drawing lines through the points... you know what, let's just say that in the end, two compasses, a vernier caliper, a 4' rule, a straight-edge, a power plane, and a lot of bad words were involved.

Masts and things

New halyards and sheets for the Springtide. Made slip arrangements as well. Have been planing down the Amanda Louise mast out of a solid 4X4. I made one attempt with Wooden Boat Works' instructions for cutting the Peapod mast, but found it was too difficult to get the equal angles with a table saw. Ended up using the instructions found here. While I made an honest go with a hand plane, I ended up using the power planer in the end, and it went pretty smoothly.

Mastmaking

The pile of sawdust created doing a rough-cut of the mast. Took out the SpringTide's running rigging to get it replaced. Believe it may be what came with the boat - getting pretty brittle.

The D-Bag Part the Second

While my latest efforts (top) are an improvement over the machine-gun attempts that came before (top), I am no master of the flat stitch.

D-Baggery

Progress on the ditty bag is hampered by my apparent inability to sew a straight line. It has been suggested I use a sewing machine; a suggestion that I have refuted with an argument I find myself using commonly in the line of sailing: 'that's practical and faster and likely better and all, but not the point.'

Am re-pinning and adding a sew-to line.

Progress on the Nutshell Pram

A Mast in Progress

Rudder and tiller cheeks completed

Fid-ling about

The first step in learning to sew a sail is learnign to sew a ditty bag. What do you need to sew a ditty bag? Well, a needle, some marline and a yard of canvas (all commercially available,) some beeswax (got plenty of that,) and a fid (think of it like a rounded, blunt wooden stake.) As you can't find proper fids on Amazon these days, this is my first attempt at carving one out of 3/4" oak. I'm fairly okay with the whittling portion. Still need to sand it down quite a bit.