Set up waterline inside hull. Make cockpit components. Dry fit and scribe coamings. Glue together cockpit components after glassing cockpit tops. Scarf on coaming extensions and glass insides. Cut and fit cockpit floor panels.
Month: September 2008
Floors, cockpit coamings, and keel plug
Floors
Ream all floor and keel holes to bolt size and everdure. Create pocket in keel for floor #0 bolt. Dry fit all floors and bolts. Make and drill through hull for screws. Remove all and everdure holes. Fit floors, bolts and screws with sikaflex bedding on all fastenings. Make fore and aft template for mast step. Cut deck for sampson post.
Cockpit coamings
Make template for curve and set up laminating jig. Rip ply and glue up coaming cores. scribe, strip and trim coaming. Disassemble jog and repeat process for opposite handed coaming.
Keel plug
Make out new keel profile. Make and fit wedge to top of plug. Build on extensions to plug to accommodate core boxes. Make core boxes. Screed on fairing cream to plug.
1:15 model
Bruce Askew builds deck furniture. And goes scavenging for maststep material.