: I've build boats from several of Tom's plans. Pay attention to what
: looks right and wrong. If it doesn't look right/fit check the
: measurements again. I've made a lot of adjustments on the fly to
: get things to fit nice. I've even had to make some half inch
: adjustments. I'd say those were bad measurements on my part. It
: is easy to make that kind of mistake. If you drew the sections
: out any then transfered them to the plywood you can easily check
: the measurements again. (I make paper patterns first. That way I
: can build another one without having to make the patterns
: again.)

I've made a whole bunch of mistakes laying out the frames on Tom's boats too, sometimes I catch them before I've cut out the frame, not always though. Once I must have fallen asleep while laying out the frames, just turned the sheet of plywood over and started again on the other side. Every frame was wrong ;)

This is why I learned to make a cheat sheet ahead of time, take my time to convert all the decimal numbers to fractions that I can easily measure, then the next day go back and fix the calculations that I messed up . (I'd make a lousy accountant)

Agree, if something looks wrong, it probably is.

Bill H.