Re: Point Comfort 23
Posted by MarkR on
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We've gotten to the point where we need to plane the keel land. This is the flat to which the keel will be fastened. First the keel land was laid out using the laser to keep it dead straight.
Most of the hull has been constructed to come to a peak at the keel centerline. That area will be planed off to form about a 2 1/2" flat which will allow the keel to be mounted to the keelson.
The forefoot near the stem is mostly flat with the keelson showing and planks overlapping. These overlapping planks are planed down to the keelson. First with the power plane, then finished off by hand.
The aft section is planed to a flat.
The flat is planed from aft to forward, completing the keel land.
This process continues carefully to assure the land is dead flat. It is tweaked and flattened over its length. The progression is power plane to #4 to #5. The hand planes need frequent edge maintenance as planing the phenolic glue of the BS 1088 plywood is hard on them.
Once the flat is to our liking, the entire area is sanded to 120 with a slight radius on the edges of the land to allow the fiberglass reinforcement to smoothly be applied.
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We've gotten to the point where we need to plane the keel land. This is the flat to which the keel will be fastened. First the keel land was laid out using the laser to keep it dead straight.
Most of the hull has been constructed to come to a peak at the keel centerline. That area will be planed off to form about a 2 1/2" flat which will allow the keel to be mounted to the keelson.
The forefoot near the stem is mostly flat with the keelson showing and planks overlapping. These overlapping planks are planed down to the keelson. First with the power plane, then finished off by hand.
The aft section is planed to a flat.
The flat is planed from aft to forward, completing the keel land.
This process continues carefully to assure the land is dead flat. It is tweaked and flattened over its length. The progression is power plane to #4 to #5. The hand planes need frequent edge maintenance as planing the phenolic glue of the BS 1088 plywood is hard on them.
Once the flat is to our liking, the entire area is sanded to 120 with a slight radius on the edges of the land to allow the fiberglass reinforcement to smoothly be applied.
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