Possible Clues:

• Writing the initial version of a document to be improved later
• Outlining key outdoor activity
• Choosing for the military
• Writing first version of paper, not out wearing women's clothes
• Designing buoyant structure with sound cladding
• Impressing daughter, progressing down-river
• Hundreds floating along in the rough
• Drawing up an outline
• Writing a preliminary version
• Making rough preliminary written version