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Great going, Andrew. I'm looking forward to your flipping over pictures. Won't be long at the rate you are working.

Andrew.
Great progress! You'll have a hull in no time at all. It looks like scarphing and gluing prior to installation is working well for you. I had neither the courage nor the space to try...

Andrew,
Great progress, and that is one lovely scarph! Once again, I envy you your space. I am down to 4 inches headroom clearance as I fasten my cabin top, and I have to suck in to work on the...

Hi Andrew,
Be brave! There's no such thing as "one go" with epoxy lam frames. If you go too deep, just glue on another strip and fair it again. Remember the mantra: "Thickened epoxy is your friend....

Hi Andrew,
After you get your garboard strakes in place, and plane their edges where they meet the keel, you'll have your flat surface again to run your router on, plus you'll have the added...

Thanks to all.
Now I have more options than I know what to do with!

Thanks to all. I shall follow up on the suggested sites and articles.

I'm looking for a source for hardware (sheaves, etc) for building my own traditional looking blocks. I'm thinking lingum vitae cheeks, bronze hardware. Any info would be appreciated. Also, if...

Hi Andrew,
Great pictures. You are truly moving along. I'm glad to see your molds look remarkably like my own. It gives me confidence. Don't worry about the keel notch alignment error. Remember...

Ben,
Have a look at Woodboatbuilder.com. It is the website of the Workshop on the Water at the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia (where I happen to volunteer.) If you poke around, you...

Morgan Volunteer,
I found your thread yesterday and can't stop reading. The photos are great and the narrative informative. The Morgan project is about as significant as any going on right now,...

chuckm,
I'm happy to see the pictures and pleased to learn of another Grey Seal under construction -- In the US, no less. I was beginning to think Andrew and I were the last of the breed (rare to...

I am building an Oughtred Grey Seal, and have decided to use the compass-and-batten technique to spile the strakes. Just began the process, and it went very quickly on the garboard strake (like 30...

Thank you Ed.
I have enjoyed reading your posts. I hope I reach the point where I can offer my own assessment of the joys of sailing, but there is a lot of glue to mix before that happens.

Charles

I have started a blog and have put up some pictures of my Grey Seal building progress there. You can find it at http://greysealbuilder.blogspot.com/.

George,
As Andrew mentioned in his reply, I am also building the centerboard version. My reason is simply that the nicest local waters available to me are the shallow bays with shifting sandbars...

Rob,
You make some excellent points. I am not familiar with Lombardini, but I just Googled it and found that it is actually American owned, although they don't seem to have much of a presence here....

Andrew,
Your question was also my first major head-scratcher when I started. I discussed it with my guru, John Brady, who is a master wooden boat builder at the Independence Seaport Museum in...

Andrew,
I am building the centerboard version with the gunter rig. We plan to sail primarily in the bays in New Jersey, which tend to have shallow water and shifting sandbars, so the keel boat...

Andrew,
I shall follow your progress with great interest. I began to build a Grey Seal late last year, and managed to get my strongback, moulds, and frames in place before it got too cold to glue...