At times I feel that I am not building a yacht but am just making sawdust. With help from Kevin we made the triangular shaped carlins out of a 70 mm by 22 mm rectangular section. It took a while to work out a cutting sequence but once into production mode we cut three lengths which I subsequently scharf joined into two six metre lengths, one for each side of the deck. I had pre dressed the timber but each length had to have one last check for straightness and a few passes with the power planer. All of this produces sawdust. The worst job was trimming back the excess plywood on the inside edge of the deck. The internal curve is not too power plane friendly so I used a coarse disk on the angle grinder for the trimming. To be a good neighbour I covered the cabin with a tarpaulin to keep the dust contained and donned a face mask and goggles. For the final pass I went for a fine disk and am pretty pleased to have that job behind me. The vacuum cleaner was then used to collect all the dust from the deck before it blew away in the breeze. Elaine helped me clan up the sawdust from the circular saw bench and power planer and that filled half a good sized garbage bag.
The photos of the starboard side carlin give a good view of the side deck. The foredeck and part of the forward side deck is made from two layers of 6 mm ply while the rest of the side deck is one layer of 12 mm ply.
Starboard side carlin trial fitted to the deck. Note the triangular section.
View of the starboard side carlin from the bow