This is a 1x12 Top Choice pine board. If you look carefully, you can see the outline of the leeboard that will be cut out of this piece. Some boats have a center board, some a daggerboard, and some have a leeboard. It helps you go upwind. Kind of a pivot point.
Curves cut, not on to shaping the leading and trailing edge into a foil shape, the way Rudders are shaped
Started rough shaping this with a Rigid brand oscillating edge/belt spindle sander, but stopped because I thought I was going to screw it up. I had worked for quite some time on the boat and this was something like 9 pm.
Went over to a client's woodshop, and spoke to him and his shop foreman about getting the proper foil shape on the leeboard. They both agreed that I should use a hand plane. Here is what it looks like after just about 15 minutes of using the hand plane.
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