Shape blocking, and cut rabbet for side panels in the bottom planking.
Make a pattern for the side panels with 1/8" plywood strips, and a hot glue gun.
Cut out side panels, and final fit in the planking rabbet. Scribe the panel at the deck stringer, bow, and stern. Cut out the panel, and glass the inside with one layer of 4 oz cloth. Glue panel onto hull, using strips of 1/8" plywood and staples to hold the panel in place until the glue dries.
Smooth out the joint where the sides meet the bottom planking, and fair out any hard spots.
Fiberglass the hull with two layers of 4 oz glass on the bottom, and one layer on the sides. You can use 50" wide glass, and do one layer from each side to the bottom planking on the other side, which will give you two layers on the bottom and corner planking.
Sand all the seams, and put on two more coats of epoxy.
Turn over hull, and cut the frames off at deck level.
Cut out the hull at the wing deck stringer aft of frame 2, to the aft beam location.
Fair out the inside of the strip planking, and glass the bilge with 6 oz cloth up to the top of the chine stringer.
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Mark, you are a builder after my own heart! I love luan! You build is beautiful!!! Very clean and precise. Who says a gorgeous, well built boat can't be made from Home Depot materials?
ReplyDeleteI'd like to ask you about your rig. I have to replace the 28' mast on my Shark 20 catamaran. It was built in 1962 by Gibbs in Wisconsin, and it is still raced as a one design. I keep thinking about a cold-molded wing mast....