Before you start working you will need to download and print out our online PDF pattern page.

.- You need to make the model out of cardstock or manila file folders, so you will need to 1) print the PDF pattern page on paper and later cut the patterns out and trace them your manila folder stock or other hard paper or photocopy the PDF pattern page onto card stock or 2) print the PDF pattern page directly onto cardstock.

.- Use the 4” check line on the PDF pattern page printout to make sure that the model has copied at the correct size. (Sometimes computers and copy machines distort images.) If not, the easiest thing to do is to use a photocopier to enlarge or shrink the pattern page to the appropriate size.

1) Label your sides, transom and center frame pieces.
o Sides get labeled "bow" (the big end), "stern" (the small end), and "bottom" (the shorter edge) The bow end of the side panels is also next to the pointy end of the bottom. The bottom edge of the side panels is also next to the bottom panel.
o The transom gets labeled bottom (the shorter, straight edge)
o The center frame also gets labeled bottom (the center dotted line)