The foreward hull panels have been epoxy coated and await transportation to the assembly site and, of course, assembly!
I am fabricating chine-logs today. More accurately, I am fabricating pieces that will become the chine-logs.
Starting with a 1x6x8' piece of finger-joined spruce facia, I ripped two 48mm wide pieces. I cut them from each side of the original board so they would each have a "factory" (straight) edge. They were cut to 48mm to allow for a wandering saw blade and poor operator skills. Once cut, they were clamped together to be planed to the correct size (45mm wide). The jack plane and block planes made pretty quick work of this task. I am quite pleased with the edge I was able to make with the planes. These two pieces will be scarf-joined together to make a 15'6" chine-log. I will cut and fit the scarf-join here, but will glue it up at the assembly site - I have no way to transport long, thin pieces of wood securely.
Later today I will work on another set of saw horses, although the second set may not be as hefty as the first set. I'll need at least four horses to support the hull panels for gluing the buttstrap join, and later for assembling the hull. I may even need a fifth support as a solid base directly under the buttstrap join while gluing. I need to thing about that a bit more.
Other tasks today include fabricating the buttstraps, making the cut-outs in BH2 ann BH3, and fabricating the two pieces for the other chine-log.
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