Rinse and Repeat

Nice weather in FL.  Kinda wet but I'm working in a garage.  I finished up scarfing my floorboards to length and to my dismay I'm short not in length but in amount.  Not just a little but by 1/3!  Luckily where I order my white oak from has free shipping so I don't feel so bad.

I finished glassing another bay and am working my way forward.  As a check to see how well I got things aligned I ran a tape measure from the point of the bow to each corner of the transom.  It came out with 1/4"!  Made me pretty happy.  I often find myself test fitting pieces and just sitting in my garage contemplating my work.  So far I'm very happy with the way this thing is going together.  Can't wait to finish the interior fiberglassing and sanding so I can move on.

Hours this session: 4
Hours total: 165
Hours remaining: 235

Floor Board Work

Beautiful day here in FL.  Temp is topping out at about 83.  Nice for boat building.  So what I did was to go out early and fiberglass another bay.  While I was waiting for that to dry to green so that I could do the trimming, I cut dados in the ends of my white oak floor boards so that I can graft them together

I cut the dados in the end of 18 5' sections of floor boards.  Then mixed up a resin and 50/50 mix of wood flour and silica.  Slathered it on the ends and clamp them together.  Clean up as much of the excess as possible and wait for them to dry.

Once these dry I will run them through the planer and then relive the edges with a round over bit.  I plan on finishing these with oil.

Hours this session: 4
Hours total: 161
Hours remaining: 239