Building The Strong Back

Now that the garage space is cleared up (sort of), it's time to do the Home Depot runs for lumber. All lumber laid out and ready for assembly.I'm usng 2x6 for the frames and 2x4 for the cross sections.

And movng along:

And moving along some more:

And finally there:

The top of the Strong Back is raised as recommended by Ian to save me from back aches later.

To space required to build the hull in my estimate would need to be about 38-40 feet long, at least 14 feet wide and 10' high at least. The F-32AX is 32' (close to) long and 9'6" wide. I do not have that kind of space in my garage and have to put up a shelter in the backyard which in my county requires a permit. Anything that's not taken down in the night is not a temporary structure they say. So until I figure what to do about that I'll be building the floats in my garage for which the strongback needs to be a minimum 27'3" and the float length would be 28'10". This fits in my garage diagonally corner to corner. The strongback is 28' with a few inches to spare on both sides so I should be good. Except I'll have to do the monkey business to get from one side to the other once the form frames are setup. I have a plan for that.