We Found a 22mm Mistake Building Our Wooden Boat's Floor

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:00:04 +0000

We're building the cockpit sole (floor) for our DIY wooden boat, the "Wooden Shoe" — and partway through, we found a 22mm height error between the cockpit floor and the keel that meant redoing every support, one by one.
In this wooden boat build video:

✅ Marking station levels 7 & 12 for the cockpit sole plywood, including water drainage channels between hatches
✅ Building the plywood support structure
Laminating thin plywood to thicker plywood with Titebond III
First layer of epoxy (floating epoxy coat comes later once stringers are in)
✅ Making the stringers and filler wood
✅ Building a DIY station-line tool after losing laser access — and it worked perfectly
✅ Finding and fixing the 22mm height mistake
✅ Laying out all stringer, filler wood, and helm/passenger block lines, plus the 10mm hatch lip

COMING NEXT: We cut the stations to the correct height, then install every stringer, filler wood, and block — starting at Station 8, finishing with the trough plywood between Station 8 and 7. Then we repeat it station by station. Subscribe so you don't miss it!

This is real jungle boatbuilding — mistakes, fixes, and all. If you're following along with our Wooden Shoe build or building your own wooden boat, subscribe for the next stage.

🔧 Materials: DIY marine triplay, Tzalam & Chechen hardwood, Titebond III, epoxy
📍 Filmed in the Mexican jungle
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00:00 Introduction
00:28 Marking the lines for the cockpit sole
01:26 Cut some wood
01:39 Building the cockpit sole support
01:48 Lamonation of the cockpit sole
04:32 Applying one coat of epoxy
05:03 Made a DIY tool for marking the stations
05:34 All stringers and filler wood are prepared
05:57 All lines for stations, stringers, filler wood and blocks are drawn
06:09 22 mm wrong height
07:00 Example of stringers locations
07:24 Marking for a hatch lip - all sides
07:35 The little water flow which can come in at the hatches
08:18 Cutting out the hatches opening and the sides of cockpit sole
08:51 Description of the next work