Fairing and sanding

Spent a couple of hours sanding down the excess glue around various joints in preparation for applying a couple of coats of timber sealer. It's slow and awkward work, so far I am only about 25% of the way through that task.

I did start off using the sanding attachment on my Bosch oscillating tool but the sanding pad gets hot and melts the Velcro hooks so I gave up on that and I'm doing it by hand.

I also cut the athwart ship limbers, I decided eventually to cut them in the forward side of frames 0, 4, & 6.

Spent some time looking at and fixing the fairing. Most of the work was focused forward of frame 8.

Last thing for the weekend was cutting out the full sheet for the aft port side first layer and then slicing up the remainders of the two sheets into 100mm strips.

I am only going to get a few hours on the boat over the next couple of weeks. Hopefully I will be applying the timber sealer about mid October, and then skinning can begin.

Limbers and ply

Progress has been a little slow lately. I have be indecisive about the state of the fairing. I have found it difficult to determine what is correctly faired and what needs work.

Well anyway, today I did some more checks and have concluded that from frame 0 to 5 is ok, but forward of that needs more work.

So I decided to cut the limbers as I wasn't in the mode for fairing. Cutting the limbers with the router was a relatively simple task but I was surprised how long it took to cut them all. I still have the athwartship limbers to cut, I will be posting I the glen - l site regarding where the best place for these is.

Lastly I cut up my first sheet of ply. The instructions allow for a full sheet to be used on both side at the aft end for the first layer. I have the first sheet trimmed to an oversize shape.

Fairing

Took to the bow area with the power plane and then the disc sander.  I am very happy with the result.  It all looks pretty symetrical, and althogh some of the battens don't end as tidyly as I like, I think it will all end up ok.

I then start on the battens to the read of the boat.  Surprisingly there are hollows between each of the frames.  I have taken most of those out with a hand plane.

I'm a little bit unsure of just how perfect the fairing process needs to be.  I have sought advice from the Glen - L forum but had no useful responses.

So I moved on to other things.  I cut out the ply for the first layer of the transom.  I have cut it out oversize, with the plan being to trim it down after its been glued in place.