A dark day

I messed up and have ended up with frames 1 to 6 not being square with the stringers. In hindsight I know how I went wrong, I failed to get the stringers aligned properly, and then fitted frame 6, which sits on a ledge cut into the stringers.  Then each frame was referenced to this frame, so the problem telegraphed its way along the boat.  Bugger !!!

I have posted on the glen-l forum regarding my stupidity and await for advice on what to do. Worst case is I will have to remove all the frames and start again.

Damn !!!


Update

Well after checking things over again I found that 1,2 & 3 were ok. 4 was a tiny bit out, 5 a tiny bit more and frame 6 was pretty bad, about 5 or 6 mm out.

So I went and bought an oscillating tool (See my tools page). This was absolutely perfect for cutting through the glue joints. It made very little damage to the various parts and after a bit of a clean up and filling some gouges I will be able to reuse everything.

It will take a couple of days to get back to where I was but could have been a lot worse. To fix my stringer misalignment I will have to cut the longer one shorter by about 4 or 5 mm.  So my Monaco is going to shorter than designed by 5mm :-) .

Here are a couple of photos showing the damage from cutting.  The stringers suffered very little on the top faces, but the side faces fared worse.  The frame suffered a little worse, but nothing a bit of epoxy won't fix.  Best of all, none of it will be seen when its all finished.