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Here are a few pictures about what's going on at the shop. |
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| 08/01/17 | ||||
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Sorry to have left you without news for almost a month: holidays with the family and massive work on the website to update the boats lineup. I call this picture "suspenders and belt": the stem breasthook being glued, held in place by clamps first and then by temporary screws! |
With Igor's help, I have just turned over the fully stitched hull of the Skerry. Only the bulkheads are not fully sutured: at this point they are held only on their lower edge to the sole. They will be fully stitched during the next step. | The copper wire stitches were not enough to "bring" the planking to the frames, so I completed them with more temp. screw through the planking. It's a bit delicate to locate these in the middle of the 9 mm plywood without "exploding" the bulkhead's edge... Meanwhile, the planking joints have received a first epoxy filling between the stitches. | ||
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| Detail of a "LapStitch" joint. The lower plank is grooved to "half wood" for 10 mm on its edge, so that the next plank is locked by the stitch at the bottom of the groove, and everything falls into place! On the picture, the joint has received a first filling with epoxy, between the stitches, which will be removed next. | When the epoxy of this first filling has cured, all copper wire stitches are cut and removed. I do collect them carefully because I found out that they do clog the hose of the most powerful vacuum cleaner... | The hull after the second epoxy filling: the joints are regularly (?) filled full length. The bulkheads are still not glued, as no epoxy has been applied to the inside as yet. | ||
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| I have glued the bulkheads between the stitches. The heaters and thermometer are reminders that the temperature is still cold. In the foreground, you can see the forward bulkead with the cut for the hatch filled with epoxy since I don't plan to install a hatch, and the new and old drainplug holes (see previous pages for the story about that). | View of the inside of the bow with the joint, coveved with a fiberglass stripe. | Detail of the fiberglass covered joint. | ||
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