It looks like nothing happened this week to the unsuspecting eye but quite a lot happened (please believe me) and the backbone of the boat is now in place. We are now ready to start fitting the hull skin.....a couple of days behing schedule but not bad considering lots of encountered problems.
At the start of the week we just had the basic components but nothing secured in place or joined together. This was the difficult part to marry them together and get them glued in. It was all glued in by Thursday night and friday was spent cleaning off and then scribing for the first piece of cloth/epoxy coated foam to be fitted on the moulds on Monday.
We encountered the first problem of the week when we overbrowed the hog and so a full day was spent rectifying this by fairing a new line along it's length on one side and then transferring that line to the other side and then adapting the keel to this new width. Luckily we had plenty of width to spare.
The main problem of the week however was how to create a fair bearding line for the planking down the apron. This was overcome with most of Wednesday spent designing a crook tool which accurately allowed us to do so. I think the design went through about 7 different versions along the way until we got to the final successful one. When the apron was browed off and a battten run along the moulds it all faired in wonderfully.
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