The fine weather has returned and so I am able to recommence the fairing of our Didi 40 Cr hull. When there is no breeze the belt sander does a good job of leveling the local high spots around the plywood planks on the radius chine. If the wind starts blowing in the direction of the neighbours I switch to a hand plane. A long heavy fibreglass batten and a lighter aluminium angle have proved very useful for locating high spots that need a little trimming.
As reasonable progress has been made with the initial fairing today I made up a new torture board and have been up and down the port side. There is still a little to do on the port side but it is starting to look pretty fair. I tried spreading blue chalk on the hull and sanding it away with the torture board and that seems like a pretty useful technique except is is probably too exacting for this stage as we have yet to glass the hull and then will need to do it all again.
Initial fairing on the starboard side
Port side fairing showing the heavy fibreglass batten used for checking for high spots