Plane

25 April 2015

The photo below shows how I put the temporary screws holding the sides of the boat to chine too close to the edge.  I discovered this goof, too late, when I worked the angle of the chine in preparation for the bottom plywood.  Not the end of the world, but something to avoid.

In the photo below you can see the rough glue up where the side panel and chine meet the transom.   Lots of interesting angles to resolve here before the bottom sheathing goes on.

A phot showing the tolerance I accepted when a straight edge was laid down on the form.  There is a bit of a gap where I have taken a tad too much off the chine and side.  All these goofs will be underwater thankfully and out of sight from the Woods Hole boat building editorial staff.

Another view of the rough glue up looking from the transom forward.  Time to start planing this in prep for the bottom sheathing.

I have no idea why I took this picture of the bottom of the planer.  I think I was trying to convince myself that I had not destroyed the planer blades when I trimmed off some screw heads.

A photo showing the beginning of the line I established to accept the bottom sheathing.  You can see all the record-breaking snow I had outside.  You can also see one of my two little electric space heaters.  I managed to run up a $600 electric bill in one month.  That was unexpected and unfortunate since the room never got above 50.  I was essentially trying to melt all that snow.  Next year I will look into getting a propane heater installed.  I like this shot too because you get a sense of the line that Doug Hylan has established in the hull.