Chines and bracing

I completed the bracing of frames 6 thru 8, they are a lot more rigid. There is still a little bit of give, I will see how it goes when the Chines are wrapped around and decide if I need even more bracing.

Second part of the day was cutting the chine logs out. It's a job that frankly I have been avoiding. The bit that I struggle with is getting the first straight edge on a board. I tried a development of my previous method, and although it produced a better result it still has plenty of room for improvement. While typing the last sentence I have comeup with a method that should solve my problems.

The other thing I have done since I ripped my keel bits is buy another roller top stand to held feed the timber, this made a huge difference. I think I'll get another couple.

So what I am doing is using a piece of box aluminum that is 25 x 75. I lay that on its 75mm side and then put the guide arm in my skillsaw in backward so that it runs along the aluminium on the opposite side the cut. The skil saw then runs along the top of the box section. This works very well except my boards are 4.8m but the box section is only about 3m long so. I have to do a cut, then move it, and it's in moving it that errors creep in. But as I said before I have an improvement in mind which should solve my problems.

Any how, after getting a straight edge I ripped out 4 lengths of chines from one board and a couple of shorter lengths to join and give me the 20 ft lengths I need.

I got a chance to thickness the short bits and make a start on one of the long bits before I ran out of time.