Monday 8 August
A sunny start to the day and not too cold. I was keen to do a bit of cleaning up and started by sanding the glue dags off the wooden C clamps so that we could store them out of the way for the next club to use to build a St Ayles Skiff. Come on Albany, I know there must be someone there who could do this.
Geoff joined me and went to work sanding the inside of boat 1 where John I had left off. Eventually, to save his back, he had to climb into the boat.
JP was back on deck after his lengthy break and started by planing the remaining two scarf joints in the keel timbers. His tool of choice being the electric plane which achieved the desired result in no time. He then moved on to planing the bevel in the stems and had a lot of fun trying to work out how best to clamp them in a position he could work with. The results were still good and there is still some finessing with a hand plane left to do.
I moved on to the cross beams. The first beam needed a 10mm half lap joint cut into it to sit on the frame. After sawing and chiseling out the inset piece at each end it took a lot of sanding and adjustment to get it seated in the right spot on the frame.
Geoff had brought in what is rapidly becoming the shed’s go to cake, a Danish Coconut Dream Cake. So moist and sweet. We finished off the last one with our tea.
Geoff cleaned up the shed after tea break and I did one hand planing pass on the keelson of boat 2 while JP finished up the stems. Geoff and JP left me to do those fiddly angles for cutting the ends of the beams. I luckily measured about 3 times before making the cuts as my first measurement was way off. The second beam was a much easier fit being in the middle of the boat and not sitting on a plank lap. It went well and although it still needs to be lap jointed onto the frame I was happy when I left.
Cheers Dave