How to best utilize my wood?

Been trying to decide the best way to attack the frames. I started off with a plan to start at one end of the boat and work my way to the other, but I was concerned about getting the best yield from my wood.

So what I ended updoing was drawing in CAD all of my bits of wood, and then each part as described in the BOM. Then I could just drag and drop the bits and play around till I got the best utilization I could.


The pleasant surprise was that it appears I can get more parts out of my current stock than I expected.

So having come up with a cutting plan, I took the simplest piece and cut it to length and ran it through the thicknesser. The amount of saw dust is heart breaking. Anyhow I now have two pieces of timber ready to be made into Frame #8

Best of all I finally feel this project is underway.

Tomorrows challenge is to transfer the pattern for frame 8 onto the bits of wood and cut them out.

I'll also figure out how to put photos on this blog and post a couple tomorrow.