Anyway, D has been forging on, completing the planking and commencing the deadwood. Planking went OK and the hull was then faired. At this point you have a curved hull onto which needs to added a straight piece of deadwood. The picture below illustrates the area of part of the deadwood at the stern.
The deadwood contains the opening for the propshaft and this is cleverly formed by appropriate layers in the deadwood. Parts of this stage have involved 'lining up bits of air' as the deadwood needs to line up with things that have not been built yet. Easy on the plan but not so easy in reality. Consequently D has been building appropriate templates to add on so that all the alignments are correct. Cunning
The iroko for the deadwood was planed by a friendly local timber yard who were interested in the project and asked to look at the plans.
I cannot pretend to understand exactly what he is doing at the moment but it all looks lovely and I wander down to the 'shed' from time to time and run my hand lovingly over the beautifully faired hull and make appreciative noises. We are starting to contemplate sheathing the hull, ordering the keel and negotiating for the engine. D has also been putting the laminate on the stem and trimming the edges off the planking at the sheer so the hull is actually properly boat shaped now.
Here are the obligatory photographs.
Below shows the building up of the deadwood aft and the hole for the propeller shaft tube. You will note the blue stuff attached to the right hand side of the hull - this is simply a protective sheet to stop escaping epoxy dripping onto the faired hull. Saves a lot of cleaning up !
The building up of deadwood at bow and stern
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And finally for now, the lamination for the capping of the stem which covers the end of the planking,
And here is the completed and faired deadwood with further template of the wooden part of the keel attached and also note epoxy fillets where deadwood meets the hull.
