Gluing of Second Layer Finally Started.

It's been a while, but I have been busy mostly with backfilling of all the screw holes and gaps over the stringers on the first layer. Once this was complete the panels for the second layer were all cut and fitted dry.

When the time came to start gluing the second layer, I battled for a few days to get the balance scale to work properly and have now opted for a small digital scale instead which is far more acurate. The investment so far is to great to risk a mistake with the mix ratios and thus mess up the whole project.

Setting up the Keelson

Currently things are progressing slowly, but progressing they are. I have been filling all the screw holes on the first layer and then sanding, which at the moment is a problem because of the noise factor. The hull seems to act as an amplifier and I am sure they can hear me on the other side of Scarborough. Good competition though for the drummers up on the hill.

In the meantime I will continue with the story.

Once the frames were set up it was time to lay the Keelson, which turned out to be quite a challenge due to the length, especially when it came to glueing the 3 layers together. Thanks to Theo for his help in making this a bit more manageable with both of us mixing glue in tandem. I even had to make additional clamps out of some rectangular tubing to get the job done.

The full length pieces were first made up with 3 pieces timber glued together with Scarfs. These were then layed in position over the frames to mark and cut the shape. Once this was done the first layer was fixed to the frames with the subsequent layers beeing glued in place over that.