Time to kick it up a notch

I can work evenings and weekends now in the shop. With the new shop improvements I am able to keep a constant 72 deg. even when it's 100+ outside.  The wife may not ever get me to come in now.

Well this week was spent doing the lower rubrail. A simple 5/8" x 5/8" pice of cypress bent arround the lower part of the shear strake.

This is glued on with temperary screws to hold while the epoxy cures, then the srews are removed and the holes are plugged with cypress plugs cut from the same wood.

While the rubrail cures the gunwale is made. Again from cypress I have used the router to put a nicen 3/4" half round curve on the lower edge of a 5/8" x 1-1/4" strip. This is glued on using the same process as before.

This view may give a better idea of how the gunwale is shaped. The curve in the lower side will reccess the rope bumper that I will make to wrap around the sides and bow. You can also see the cypress plugs glued in to the wholes of the lower rubrail.

The next bit is cutting and glueing up all the spacers in between the gunwale and the inwale.

During the curing time on these I began work on the dagger board.  This is to be solid mahogany with a cypress handle sandwiching the top.

The dagger board slot will get cut in the bottom as soon as I get the nerve up to cut a large whole in the bottom of the hull.

With the epoxy cured I will be able to place the inwale. This goes on the inside of the hull on the spacers and creates the whole ladder look of the gunwale that we are familiar with on old wooded boats.