Finished frames posed...
If you look sideways and squint a bit you can almost see a boat's shape there in those frames.
Here are the center case side pieces with the outside cleats being glued...
Nothing very exciting about this - other than it is another step toward completing my boat.
Here are the new bar clamps...
The new set of eight clamps gives me a total inventory of 34 clamps. I've gone from a total of ten clamps on hand when I began this project in April, so having 34 clamps seems like a lot to me. However, apparently a woodworker - and particularly a boat builder - can never have enough clamps. And, as it is, I am already planning to buy more!
One more picture... This is the dagger board being glassed.
Again, not much to see really. Once the FG cloth is wetted through with resin it "disappears" from view. You can see the tag ends of the cloth at the ends of the board.
I am using a different technique to glass the dagger board than I used for the rudder. The rudder was done with a single piece of cloth draped over the leading edge of the foil. Applying the resin to both sides was an adventure, and resulted in one minor (could have been worse!) incident. When trying to make sure the cloth was not puckered I pull too hard on it and pulled the resin covered foil off its support and onto the floor!
For the dagger board, I draped one piece over the leading edge but only brought it about half way down the board (on both sides). Each side will get a layer of cloth which will over-lap the first piece. A third layer will be draped over the leading edge and over-lap the sides. Once that sets up I will sand and fair the board. I plan to get all that done in about 10 days as I want to take the board up to Ed's to measure the thickness of the board and cut the center case spacers to the correct size.
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