Right so I am determined to put it all in here, the good, the bad and the downright ugly. And today we have the ugly.
As you can see by the first pic I had a dip in the bottom and the lower chine panel at the stern of the boat. This was because I didn't put enough pressure on the sheets of ply to keep them aligned while glueing up.
I have been toying with the best way to repair this, from adding filler to glueing an extra piece of ply onto it and last night it hit me like a solid wave over the deck. Cut and reglue eedjit!!!! That was a face palm moment. So this morning it was out with the angle grinder and thin cutting blade to chop that corner to pieces. This was the result.
Mixed up some epoxy and micro, refilled the holes and now we wait for it to set.
In the meantime I had time to kill so what next? Remember a few weeks back I built a scarfing jig and router table? Well today out came the router table with a roundover bit and off we went putting a radius on the inner edge of the gunwhale. This is the setup and yes the rope is to support the weight of the timber so it stays flat on the table.
Final sanding and that's ready to go in the boat. BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE!!!!!
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