Monday, June 16, 2008

Setting the chine logs





Over the weekend I attached the outside chine logs, I did one on Saturday and the other on Sunday. I let each one dry over night so that I wouldn’t be pulling on the frames and distorting everything I had just worked on before the glue had set up. It all went pretty well although I am not completely sure I did it all right but I will add filler later on during the fairing process. Most of all this gets covered up with plywood and fiberglass and I plan to fiberglass the internal seams around the frames when I flip the boat later. I used some wet towels on the hardest bent part of the boards to help to ease some of the stress on them. I used motorcycle tie down straps and ratchet straps, they worked better than clamps and really pulled it together well.

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