Lining Battens

Here you can see my newish toolbox (that I built!) and part of the process of scarphing a couple lining battens. The toolbox illustrates that I've been traveling with my tools, to my house and back mainly. The lining battens illustrate my lack of trust in our offsets.

Now She's Scarphed, Cut the Bottom Please

Scarphing the Bottom

Hey! Let's do recaps shall we? Everything I've posted so far today is already represented on here somewhere. And this isn't anything new. But we've got all these great pictures, so let's use them.

We scarphed the bottom. You enjoyed the time-lapse already. Now enjoy some stills (I command you).

Action Shots, or How to Look Like You Know What Your're Doing in a Boat Shop

That Damn Sheer Clamp (Inwale)

Now that I look at this picture again, I think that those crutches (in the background by the window) in the boat shop were probably a bad idea. What better way to jinx a project than hang crutches over it.
The intended object of discussion in the photo however is the big chunk of wood glued into the sheer clamp notch. (That's not supposed to be there... shhh.) This is our way of making a fair curve happen on the sheer line. It might be working, but when we did it we had yet to discover either of our two big layout mistakes. It looks pretty good though, no?

Stem Layup

As you can see, we alternated the direction of the stem laminations (hence the blue and wood-toned stripes) to counteract any thickness inconsistencies. But this is obviously old news.