Gibban

First I needed to find some wood.  John Brooks gave me lots of sound advice so I settled upon Sapele as my timber of choice.  I searched among the building supplies in Ireland, but my timing was poor - Ireland was going through a horrific economic downturn, where its construction industry had come to a complete standstill - so traditional wood suppliers were going out of business or closing down. However, I did manage to source some nice larch and spruce for my jig and molds from a local sawmill.  He also sourced some Douglas Fir for me but only in 10' lengths.   So at last I could get started by building my molds. This proved to be a far more complicated process than I had envisaged.  Not having seen boat plans before nor indeed molds, I was hard pushed to understand how to fabricate the molds.  I didn't realise that the only important lines where those on the outside down as far as the sheer - anything below this could be any shape you desi...