Discussing the Centerboard. Again.

I stumbled onto this webpage with a simple description of how to make a foil with a router- no jig required.  And it made a great deal of sense to me.

And then great things started to happen.

Brief summary-  After consulting the plans to figure out the shape of the foil, we made a list of offsets to mark on the blanks.  We basically broke down the centerboard cross section into measured increments, a bit like a topographic map.

After we had all the lines marked, we used the router to cut out each section.

Like this:

Then I used my block plane to smooth it all out.

I'm quite pleased with the cross section- it's starting to look like a foil!  I'm finally heading in the right direction.

I'm a long ways away from being finished with it, but I foresee great things in this centerboard's future.    Plus, it's the last of my 3/4" Okoume, so I had better get this one right.