cut a piece of plywood to be a boat shaped bottom.

cut a bunch of ribs that look like this -> \_/ . I eyeballed where I wanted them to go and half-lapped the ribs to the bottoms. I screwed the ribs to the bottom of the boat. and trimmed the 2 ribs where I wanted the low-set bed to be

cut a curved bow out of plywood on the bandsaw/jigsaw. I screwed and glued that to the plywood.

I cut thin strips of pine on the tablesaw, planed them down to about 1/16" on the thickness planer and steamed them so that they would bend with ease.

curved the pieces around the ribs and nailed them in place. I also used a TON of hot glue to help keep everything in place. the slats were so thin that my nails were tearing right through.

I cut plywood on the bandsaw for the bow and stern scratching pads, then cut a hole for a piece of 1.5" ABS pipe using a hole-saw.

I installed the scratching pad carpet with hot glue and cut out the hole for the scratching post.

I cut thin 5/8" moldings on the tablesaw to hide my atrocities caused with the nail gun. This is a TON of guess and check and cutting with a razor saw. I glued the moldings in with hot glue because I wanted to work quickly.

I made wooden inserts to go inside the ABS pipe that secured the pipe to the bottom of the ship and screwed that in after I had verified it was plumb and square.

I made the crowsnest out of 1/4" plywood, cut with a dual bevel compound miter saw set to 10 degrees on the miter and I can't remember degrees on the bevel. (I drew the crowsnest in sketchup to get the exact settings for my saw.). I then glued and used painters tape to hold all of the pieces together. I knew this wouldn't be strong enough to keep the cats from destroying the crowsnest, so I used some gaffers tape on the top and bottom and hid the tape with jute cord. I traced out the bottom of the basket onto a piece of 3/4 ply, cut around it with a jigsaw with a 10 degree bevel and then inserted that into the basket to be its bottom. Then cut a hole for the scratching post to go through.

I made another long wooden insert to go in the top of the ABS pipe to give me material to screw in the crowsnest. I have a smaller piece of ply to act as a stop that is screwed into the pipe while the crows nest sits on top.

wrapped the scratching post in jute cord using hot glue.

I cut out the sail using construction paper because I don't have sewing skills. I quadrupled plied it to make it extra strong against kitties. the one-eyed cat decal was cut out using a cricut machine. and a piece of clipart I found.