The glueing aspect went much better with thicker glue.
But.... I managed to shear off two of the screws. I have two theories, and it's probably a mixture of both
1. I don't have a tool to drill the correct hole taper, I did this manually for the first part of the keel with no issues, but I am thinking I messed it up and didn't drill deep enough, this is backed up by a couple of the frames cracking when the screw was driven the last 5 mm or so.
2. The second possibility is that the screws don't like being partially driven, and then driven home later as a second operation. The reason I was doing this is my battery drill doesn't have enough grunt to drive them all the way home. So I drove them all as far as I could and then went round them all with a brace, and it was then that two of them sheared.
Oh well, just another building challenge.
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