Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Full stem ahead

9 December 2014

A small but important milestone last night.  The first piece of the boat, the inner stem, was glued up.  The temp in the shop was ~45, so the epoxy was thick.  It went on a little heavier than I wanted and squeeze out made a bigger mess than I was expecting.  I left it over night in a warmer room.  The set up looked fine at 6:30 this AM.



The next task will be to grind down the inner stem to the shape outlined in Doug's plans (see below).  A blow up of the intended cross-sectional profile is below.  Plenty of opportunity to screw up on the horizon.....  Should be fun.  I will try my new angle grinder.  Always fun to figure out a new tool.




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