Managed to grab a bit of time at the W@TCOTU yeasterday so we did a few of the tricky first planks onto the shadows. I am not sure we got the first couple to follow the profile very well but with a bit of fettling from Mr Jackson I am confident all will be well! Despite my efforts in purchasing 48" (1200mm to you youngsters) balsa boards most of the planks will have to be scarf jointed, in order to stiffen up the uppermost part of the shadows we decided to put two planks along the top before starting from the gunwhales upwards. Mrs J had been to the needlework shop/basket and provided additional pins and so my steel veneer pins were rejected and had to be content with being inserted to give us the starting point for the gunwhale plank. Thankfully the no-nonsense superglue I bought, 6 tubes from screwfix, (other suppliers are available!) was acceptable! As you can see we are not quite happy with the profile towards the stern, hopefully we won't have to do too much work to sort this out, PJ insisted he got in some pictures this time so that you didn't think it was all my work! I think the pictures show all you need to know. Costs supaglue £7.80
Time spent 4 hours (could have been more!)
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August 2015
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