Completely scarphed, that is, not completely installed. I've scarphed 18 of the suckers, each requiring a floppy ten foot by 1-inch square piece of fragrant pink fir, with a very, very, very delicate feather-edge angle trimmed into one end.
Once glued, the twenty-foot pieces are even floppier. But I have them. Finally! Sixteen plus two in case of breakage. 'Cause hey, wood breaks.
Then again, it also floats, so I figure we're about even with fiberglass, aluminum, steel, all those other boatbuilding materials.
Oops, and it won't kill you when it gets on your skin. Go wood!
Ahem. In any case, having liberated my workbench from epoxy shavings, sheets of plastic, two heat lamps, a digital thermometer, a few dozen clamps, heavy steel weights, safety glasses, ear protectors, scraper, chisel, other scraper, silica powder, rubber gloves, epoxy mixing station, mixing sticks, plastic container, and other gluing detritus, I can now proceed with next steps: bunk flat supports (these hold up the "floor" of the boat) and the bunk flats themselves (the "floor".
The chine stringers are still awaiting a stretch of warm days to coincide with me not being at work so I can glue them in. We've hit 80 a few times and I quit using the heat lamps on the stringers several weeks ago.
As the monkey said about his tail after he backed into the lawn mower: won't be long now.
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I'm pretty sure I read a few words of English in there. What language is that?...Bo-at?? Sounds like good news, though and good progress.
Ha, yes: sometimes the arcane vocabulary comes through. Stringers are the long pieces that define the shape of the boat. You attach the planks to them (more or less). So what this really means is that I'm getting closer to planking!
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