Building Egoist N°1-0

Building Egoist N°1

Phase 1 : Drawing, cutting and stitching		Only current tools are needed at this stage of building
	Drawing and cutting are easily done on a table
	As you shall see from plywood cutting plans, all cuttings are made from precut rectangular forms so that hand saw cutting is restricted to a minimum. Waste may be slightly increased but cutting accuracy is bettered.
	Once cut, pieces were hanged on a support as I thought it would be a quicker way than traditional on ground mounting. Nevertheless it proved problematic for getting things symetrical
	Holes are drilled every 20 cm along the chines for stitching. A small metal plate is used as a guide
		Stitching of bilge plates is then made with electric copper wire
	Egoist hull fully stitched, apart from the front collision bulkead which will be stitched later in two 4mm plys as a 8mm would not bend.
	As you may see, the stem itself (cut in a pinewood piece) was also stitched to upper plates. Ready for epoxy gluing, if only weather permitting as the epoxy glue I have found has to be ideally used at 23/25 °Celsius with an absolute minimum of 18°C a few hours after gluing.