The stem in preparation for the next planking
The last few days have been taken up with finishing the stem and dry fitting the planking and bending it into place and making note of where the lands are and then checking the fairness of the lines, the curvature of the ply and making sure that the sides are symmetrical to each other in distance from the centreline and also that the angles port to starboard are the same along the length - wood of course had different density, elasticity, bending modulus so there was some difference between the 2original stringers which were bonded on which is now sorted out - I made a plywood pattern of the curve after much fitting and bending of the chine panel to the hull - and bent a batten to match it checking angles and curve and built a laminated shape out of epoxy and wood, the battens just have to be feathered out as they move towards the stern, then the next chine panels can go on.Sorry there were no updates the past few days - but it took time for each application of epoxy to cure, before the next part of the operation could carry on.
Sorry about the quality of these following pics but there was a lot of bending and measuring and not much tech photoing going on
