Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Fairing the port chine

The clamps came off, and the fairing work started in earnest... immediately.




One doesn't tend to think of boatbuilding in terms of its qualities as a blood sport. 

I don't, for example, recall hearing any stories about roman emperor Nero sitting in the coliseum, watching people build boats; laughing sadistically at their increasing backaches from all the crouching and sanding.

However, I drew blood in a very unexpected way while fairing this thing. I cut myself on a clump of dried epoxy; lay my finger open pretty good, too. I suppose that in the process of sanding the stuff at an angle, I had inadvertently sharpened it. Then, while sanding the other side, I passed my hand over it and it sliced right in to me. Ouch.

Odd. 

Fortunately, I didn't have to be airlifted to safety in order to get a band aid. Honestly, I'm glad I can make light of the little incident. I've heard stories recently about fellow boatbuilders getting mauled by their power tools. Be careful, folks.

On to the pictures:



Epoxy mess at the chine-to-stem joint.

Epoxy mess at the scarf joint forward of Frame #5-1/2. (This is what I cut myself on later.)

Early progress on the fairing.

Cleaning up the chine-to-stem joint.

Joint at Frame #5-1/2.

Joint at Frame #4.

Joint at Frame #2.

Chine-to-transom joint.
I was pretty happy with how the scarf joints turned out:


Scarf joint just forward of Frame #5-1/2.

Scarf joint a few inches aft of Frame #4.

Scarf joint between Frame #2 and the transom.

X marks the spot, I suppose?

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