More fairing

Spent an hour or figuring out what to do about frame 1 last night, and today put that plan into action, so now both side of frame 1 have a spacer glued on.

Then filed the remaining chine / frame and keel frame junctions to get my reference for fairing

Then it was out with the power plane, I had already taken quite a bit off one of the chines but a lot more still had to come off. I could only do one side as the spacer was being glued on the other side

Then I took to the keel, this was a bit harder, had to climb in amongst the frames and the lead kept getting tangled so I made this cranes type assembly to keep the lead up, the top swings around, worked ok.

Also set about fixing a problem up at the stem. There is a mistake in the Monaco plans (well I think so anyway).

The breast hook is made of two laminations of ply. One of the laminations has a notch in it for the stem to fit in, but this notch is too deep and the natural thing to do is push the stem all the way into the notch. Problem with this is that the front of the stem is supposed to be flush with the point on the breast hook so I had to glue yet another spacer on so that I had something to fair to a point.

After that I got into attempting the rabl method to get the stem taper correct, this worked ok up to the point where the chines met the stem. As I mentioned in an earlier post, my chine has arrived at the stem with a bit too much twist. Once again I may have to glue in some filler blocks.