Stop motion video of a side panel going on.

The camera I was using to record the build has become a wobbly old piece of history. It is a Kodak 14n camera, one of the finest early full sensor DSLR cameras. We paid about $15k for it in 2003.

It retired to the top corner of my shed, and is tethered via Firewire to a 2002 Macbook laptop. Each shot had to be in RAW format because the high contrast range in the shed with the door open. The light streaming in the door and dark windowless corners is too great for the in-camera processing of jpegs.

Consequentially I have several hard drives filled with 10 minute interval shots of my shed…

Well the old friend has been suffering a sticky mirror, I had it hanging upside down for a while and this sealed it’s fate, so I went shopping for a new stop motion camera and here are the results from my $300-ish Brinno camera.

Centreboard case is in.

With the gracious help from Gary Croft, the case was upended and placed on top of the bottom of the boat and then carefully lowered into place.

With wedges and props I had supported the bottom (top) of the bulkeads that would bear the load of the case whilst the epoxy was curing. (The bulkheads are quite weak because of the cut-outs and small tabs that hold them in).

You can see the big size of this centreboard case. This, I believe, is the compromise in a sharpie. All boats are a compromise. There are so many great points with the design of these boats, but the giant centreboard, which is integral to both its windward performance and shallow water handling, robs the accommodations.

What can you do…