First week back semester 2 setting up frames

ok so over the last week we started setting up the frames for our boat construction.
on wednesday i spent the latter half of the day with a couple of other guys. we started cutting up the cedar that we are gonna use to strip plank the hull of our boat.
this required lots of setting up on the spindlemoulder we ended up using 2 blades (1 or 2mm thick i think) set at 8mm apart with an 8mm gap between the bottom one and the bench top. with this way we are cutting 2 planks at a time and we are wasting minimal wood. (overall very efficient).
we also spent wednesday dismantleing teh old frames that Chris' class used to make their boat and we stuck all of them through the speed sander. some of the other students also used a template to copy cut (router) slots into the old frames so that we would just beable to slot them all together (check that they are all level, true, straight, horizontal, etc) and screw them down, then start planking.

on thursday we finished cutting all the cedar wood (i think we ended up with nearly 50% more planks then Chris' class used on their boat, and we cut all of it in under 1.5 days. aparently it took them a week to cut all their planks).
that same day we started setting up the frames and realized that some of them had not been sanded/routered so we had to do that too. about half way through setting up the frames we noticed how inaccurate Chris' class had set theirs up because all of their lines on the floor (stations) were off by up to 4mm!!!
im really glad we are setting up ours differently...

on friday John and i started setting up the deck frames and started using the ....... arg ive forgotten the name! the tool to check heights of different things, where u look throught the sight and check the cross hairs, and some one else holds up a pole with a steel rule (or simmilar) for you to read off.

so this week we are doing dayskippers (which ive already done so im working on my half ship model), and on friday we should be able to finish setting up the frames so they are ready to start strip planking. yay