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A shot of the boat up on the cement blocks so we could work on the centerboard - you can see it down below.  

Today we had to level up the boat to work on the kingplank.  It took lots of wood under the stern!  Finally we got it mostly level and were able to hang a string and needle though a pilot hole in the kingplank, right in the center of the circle that will be the circumference of the mast.  This is so that when the mast is up, it will be vertical, instead of standing at some weird angle.  We found the center of the circle with a compass, so it is kind of accurate - as accurate as we're able to find.  We also marked the center of the hole in the mast step, accounting for the side of the circle that has been cut off.  Then we aligned the tip of the needle with the point on the mast step by shifting the kingplank around.  Once we had it centered, we marked where the kingplank was on frame 1 (under the plank in photo) and up at the bow.

Then it was time to cut out notches in frame 1 and in the kingplank to fit it down into the bow so that the deck will go over it.  Used a combination of the jigsaw and the hacksaw (to go through nails/screws).

 We cut out the notch in the kingplank with the circular saw and jigsaw.  We had to gradually cut it out to fit it into the bow properly, cutting off a bit more wood in certain areas each time we set it in the bow.  Finally we had it sitting in the bow nicely, with a little wiggle room in frame one, which was good since we had to realign the needle with the center of the mast step.

We also got the quarter knees predrilled.  I am really good at stripping out screw heads... and I did it again on the port quarter knee.  We had to pull the quarter knee out away from the boat enough to get the hacksaw between the knee and the transom to cut the screw.  Then I pulled the tip of the screw out of the hole in the quarter knee with the vice grip and my dad pushed and hammered the other end of the screw out of the transom with the vice.  Fortunately no damage done, whew!

Then we also put the inner gunnels in and marked where the quarter knees overlap them, so that we could notch out the gunnels.  I chiseled out the inner gunnel notches, and now they're ready to be sanded to fit better with the quarter knees.