Another day’s work and again some progress. The bottom plate is now glued in place and it is much better than could have been expected – it’s as tightly against the keelson as it can be. The central joint could be a bit better, but overall it’s good and straight. Now we’ll be fitting the lowest stringers – we cut them from a 25x50x4500 mm piece of wood by splitting it lengthwise with a blade saw. Who needs a sawmill, anyway? Turns out wood breaks easily from branch knots so we had to replace one of the bottom stringers, but overall they bent well, considering the amount of curvature.
We also bevelled the sternmost floor timber to the bottom plate – it has to be horizontal on a curved surface. The stern transom is now cut out and ready to be fitted. Tomorrow we expect to cut out all the other arches as well.
Check out the pictures!
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- Bottom stringer, bent to place
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- Bending the bottom stringer
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- Bottom plate glued in place
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- Chine stringers bent in place.
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- Chinelogs on the laminated, 18 cm shorter than planned floor.
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- Aft transom resting on some scrap wood.
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- Stern transom in place
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- Stern transom
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- Bottom stringers in place
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- Fitting the stern floor
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- The stern floor, clamped, bevelled and dry-fitted
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- A different view of the stern floor
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- The sternmost floor
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- The B#2 arch on plywood
