September 21, 2005:

This project is being done on a seriously limited budget. Today we tried to get a second sheet of 3/4 inch plywood for the transom. We got a rude awakening: for some reason, the prices have gone up over 25% in the past 3 weeks! I don't know if it is fuel prices and delivery or what but basically it made absolutely sure that we WON'T be able to buy another sheet of plywood.

So, we set to work on laying out a double layered transom using only one 4x8 sheet.