Friday, October 31, 2014





Back in mold and, trued up, re-leveled and marked.   Ready for remove and more shaping.







Shaping of keelson.  Started a first rough in of the keel shape and it is ready to go back in the mold and recheck the rabbits or landings.  The leveling of the keel within the mold is likely but it should be close with the previous shims.








Thursday, October 23, 2014

Next time need to level keelson before putting in all the battens.  Knew it would be a problem but ignored the thought.  Little helpers set shims and wedges at each station and tuned in the offset from the baseline.  Most are within <3 mm but the 8-7-6 stations again were troublesome.  Unfortunately there is a bit of stress in the keelson laminate as it is clamped in the form.  More tuning has slowly arrived at a good compromise.  I switched the baseline to mono-filament line, aligned the laser to the form then found the keelson center-line dead on.  The mono-filament was aligned with that and heights taken starting with 381 mm at transom and 851 mm at stem.  

Now the height tuning has really only taken 2-3 hours.  After discovering some twist that was removed a line was transferred from the batten form to the edge of the laminate.  The laminate has been removed and is ready for some initial planing / sawing.  No progress on transom assembly but hope to start cutting that up next week.  Once the keelson is cut up a bit it goes back and re tuned to the form for a finer planing then I will let the router loose on the skin joint and see where we are,