The rain held off long enough for me to glue all the stringers into place. Just a few spots of rain fell on the hull while I pulled the covers over feeling like a groundsman at the SCG.
It’s a yurt
Yesterday I installed another four braces to keep the frames straight. Even the heaviest 12 mm frames needed at least one 90 x 30 on edge to keep them straight and some of the 9 mm frames ended up with two strongbacks on them. The effort paid off with a good production day today.
To stabilise the frame even more I have started fitting some of the internal structure and have already completed the bunk bearers for the fore and aft cabins. These are a good cross check on the alignment and as a result of the checking I moved one side of one frame up 2mm. I was surprised that the frame move at all given all the stringers, keel and gunwhales are in place but the designer says it can move a bit until you get the plywood on the sides.
Work can continue in the rain
Now that the covers are on there are jobs that can be done in the rain so I guess Sydney’s run of rain is about to end.
All the stringers are notched into the stem or glued to the bow knee of keel
The stringer that meets the keel will have a 12mm thick plywood strip for the join between the flat 12 mm ply panels and the curved two layers of 6mm panels
What it looked like during the trial fit of the stringers two days ago