70mm sheerclamp

A thing that was once living does not necessarily want to follow a line drawn on a plan - the 70mm sheerclamp is settling in to its new position with a little persuading and maybe some further tweaking , luckily we have had some really humid weather so the wood is more forgiving but that is not a great situation for epoxy bonding.

little wooden blocks are screwed to the frame to hold the stringer while it curves to its new shape, this allows the wood to follow fair curves without the influence of clamps that hold it rigid and can possibly create sharp transitions. IMHO, 

ratchet straps holding the 50mm stringers from previous days

 More stringers

 notching the frame

keeping the cutout bits to use as templates for the other side

much measuring and marking to get these shapes

using ropes and clamps to get the stringers to seat well

More stringers and 💃filleting💃yoga💃😊

It is amazing how strong this little boat is going to be, 20mm plywood bottom, 10mm plywood sides, 8mm decks, stem 6 cm/60mm (there is only one 3cm thick piece of the stem glued on at the moment, another piece will be glued on after the plywood sides are glued on) and all epoxy glassed !!!

Today the 70mm sheer clamp stringers  - scarf joints were glued up

The fillets just finish off the glue joint neatly