With all the frames and the stem reasonably aligned on the strongback, it was finally time to move on to the stringers. First glimpe of the hull curves The first obstacle appeared immediately: my boards are about 4.88 m long, and the yard’s table saw simply doesn’t have the infeed and outfeed space to handle pieces of that length. I could have cut the boards in half, but that would mean adding extra scarf joints — something I preferred to avoid whenever possible. After discussing it with the yard crew, I followed their suggestion. They lent me a circular saw and I ripped the strips manually, intentionally leaving a very generous margin — up to 2 cm. Over such long cuts perfection is unrealistic, so the idea was to cut safely oversized and correct later. Cutting strips using a circular saw - hard work! I experimented with a straight-cutting jig, but the added friction actually made the operation harder and less controllable. In the end, the best method was simply following a marked lin...