Ideas continue to develop, a recent one from Rick being that we will use the building of the Mathis skiff to test the ground for a possible future class. (More on the classes later.) I also like this idea as the collaborative process is high on my list of ways to do stuff. The skiff we will be building will be a copy of an original Mathis skiff that was passed on to me by someone from the Eastern Shore of Maryland last fall. It had been stored in a chicken coop for 20 years of so and the story told to him when he received it was that this boat actually belonged to my grandfather, and was built by Trumpy's. A name plate became exposed on the inside of the transom, as many layers of paint had chipped off leaving almost the entire boat as bare wood. After some scraping the nameplate revealed where the boat was actually built. It says "Built by Mathis Boatbuilders, Camden, New Jersey". That pretty much dates it to approximately 1930. All this to say that we will start by taking the lines and then lofting this little wooden boat that is about to fall apart.