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This is a picture of my garage before I got started.  I drew the outline of each of the components of the frames on the 3/4 marine ply and cut them out.

The frames, stem, transom and keel in place.

Rear view with temporary braces to hold everything straight and level.  Notch for chine is cut into the frame in the foreground.

Add chine, sheer, etc.  This is not easy.  Just keep pushing them, give them time to rest and then push some more.  Notches cut in frame to allow water to settle at lowest part of the hull.

Start to clamp siding in place.

More clamps to hold the siding in place to the curvature of the transom.

Now clamps to hold the plywood to the keel and the stem.

All of the plywood screwed down and sanded.

View from the stern.

Beginning of the fiberglassing process.

Fiberglass complete except for filling the pores.

Full view of fiberglass before filler.   Added rollers to the platform so I could roll it outside.

Fiberglass complete.  Ready for undercoat.

Under coat and finish coat of white on the bottom.  You can see from the picture below that I made the skeg come all the

way to the end of the transom.  That is a mistake!  It should end 2 inches before the transom.

Red on the sides.

Flipped over and back in the garage.

Starting to put the supports for the deck.

View of the deck braces from the front.

Plywood is down and gluing mahogany veneer over  it.  Stripes are white pine.

Mahogany deck completed and sanded.

Deck with filler coat.

Deck with first of 12 coats of varnish.  Added rollers to the platform.

Dashboard, steering mechanism, and windshield added.

Seats added.

Lights and other things added.

View from the stern.  My wife wanted me to name it after her.

More to come.  It looks almost complete but does not have any battery, wiring, fuse panel,  gas tank, gas lines, motor etc..

Big mistake!  I am working on that stuff now and it is much harder after the deck is on.

Finally in the water.  Fantastic!!!