Top Boat

Until I built my last boat I made do with a workmate as a mobile workbench. It was portable and could clamp most small jobs but lacked weight. Which in some ways is a good thing. When I started building the canoe I made a couple of big, heavy sawhorses and screwed the strongback to them. (Building sawhorses is fun. No-one will inspect your joints, comment on your fastenings or ask what wood theyre made from and then suck their teeth disapprovingly. They just sit there looking substantial and remind you that you can build something in a morning without glue, clamps, procrastination or self-doubt.)
Once the boat was off the moulds I drilled some holes in the top of the sawhorses, screwed in some insert nuts and bolted structural ply to the top to make a workbench. I left a gap between the the two strips so that I could clamp through. The in-crowd call this "split-top". Yes. There is a workbench in-crowd. I dont think theyd let my epoxy-spattered bits of ply in the clique.
This "workbench" is fine for crosscut sawing and using power tools but it really doesnt work for planing planks. Given that my planing is better than my sawing Ill probably be doing a lot of planing on the next one. Saw near the line (somewhere in the same postcode) and then plane to it. Perhaps I should buy a scrub plane?
So I need a decent workbench. Something with mass, front and end vices and wheels. That lock. I also need a bigger shed to keep it in but thats another post.
Once again Schwarz has the answer and Ive spent a fairly surprising amount of money on wheels and floorlocks. It certainly surprised my wife.
A bench will follow.
It will follow anything its tied to unless the floorlocks are on.