Today we finished scarfing the boat bottom halves together. Now we have 8 boat bottoms. We also used butt blocks to join the two pieces that make up the 16ft. long sides of the boat. Tomorrow morning we'll cut out the three frames that help the boats take their shape and then we'll start stitching the boats together. I know already that the kids will be excited about this part of the process. It's when their hard work from the last two days will start looking like a boat.

Today we had Dennis from Riverswest.org along with several other helpers. I'm sure that our project would be a failure without the help of these great parents, grandparents and friends.

I've been very impressed with how hard they are all willing to work and how much fun they are having with a big project like this. Today we had sets of kids learning how to use a skillsaw and how to make quick work of fairing projects with a big disk sander. Kids are so keen to watch and try when learning to do these kinds of tasks. I wish we had more projects like this in our regular curriculum. I'll post photos as I get them.

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