Monday 21 March
Monday is definitely not our most popular day. It does however give me some breathing space to work out the finer details and plan for the week’s activity. Over the weekend I’d been around to Pete’s shed and scrounged up some Meranti battens to infill that annoying gap between the narrower second plank of the keelson and the frames in the centre of the boat.
JP arrived with his son, Lachy on crutches due to a basketball injury, and their dog Sebastian who was very excited about being in Harry’s shed and garden. JP scarfed the battens and glued them into place on the keelson after he had put Sebastian back in the car.
Meanwhile Lachy marked up the stems for the bevel to receive the planks from a seated position. He then used a 45 degree router bit to rout the starting bevel into the outside edge of the inner stems.
I was able to work on the boat frames bevelling the plank lands to take into account the bend in the hull for each frame. To do this I used a multi tool with a coarse reciprocating sanding disc and a batten to get the angles right. I managed to do the first two plank lands.
We had a visit from Roger who brought his knowledge and a very impressive plane set and sharpening tools and leant us a small but weighty block plane.
Lachy marked up the scarf lines of the first planks and after he had left I had a quick play with the planks on the frames that I had bevelled and they seemed to sit nicely even if there is a hell of a lot of twist needed at both ends of the planks.
Back in there tomorrow to glue up the keelson and the stems and scarf the first planks.
Cheers Dave