I spent half the day trimming the deck. I borrowed Mike’s flush cutting router bit to take the majority of the excess off the deck pieces. Then I use a small block plane to cut the deck to the proper length and angle. I finished the interior section, around the carling, the rear deck, and the dashboard. I trimmed the motorwell as well.
I started on the exterior deck on the starboard side. This required that I rough cut the deck w/ the router at an angle (as did the carling), so that the flush cut bit rode on the hull and cut the deck at the appropriate angle. There’s a fair bif of hand work to be done at the stern where the tumble home make makes angling the router more challenging…
I’ve yet to do the port side. Pictures to follow.
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I finished the deck today. I covered the carling back to the stern after putting a butt-block at the junction between the forward section and that to the stern. It went pretty quickly once I figured out how to get the various bits out of a single sheet of plywood. Here’s what it looks like
Here’s what it looks like from the bow – kinda of exciting!
The picture doesn’t show the Frankenstein-like nature of the thing….but maybe that’s just as well…
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Well, Mike and I started to deck the boat today. We snapped a line along the strongback in the bow and then fit two 1/4″ sheets of plywood. Once we’d traced the intersection of the deck and the hull as well as the carling and dashboard, we flipped each sheet and cut out the forward portion of the deck. You can see the cutout port section on top of the uncut starboard section here:
We then applied glue to all the mating surfaces (after ensuring the fit of the deck to the frames), place the deck section and nailed the deck to the frames and hull.
We repeated the process w/ the starboard deck section.
Wow! It is starting to look like something now!
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