Re: Point Comfort 23

Posted by MarkR on
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I hate to make mistakes.  But it's inevitable, so we have to learn to fix them.  "The Beast", the angle grinder in a frame, worked great for the keelson and chine aft.  There the angles are mild ones and there wasn't much twist.  Near the stem, there is a tremendous amount of twist in the planking and the machine tended to take too big of a bite.  I ended up with too much being taken off the keelson in the area around station 3.

The solution was to put some back on.  So, 5/32" shop made veneer of CVG Fir was laminated back onto the keelson using GelMagic.  The thinner plies allowed the veneers to conform to the concavity of the overcut.



Then the area was shaped with hand tools this time.  A drawknife, spokeshave and my trusty #4 were just the ticket!  Since the temps were in the 30's at night, a small radiant panel heater was used to cure the epoxy.



A laminated keelson wasn't planned, but looks like we've got one now.