Now the fun part!
With a little scarfing just add the planks - we faffed around trying to clamp down each plank in place but found that when we added the stitching this was not necessary. For stitches we just used cable ties - cheap and easy.....
Starting to look like a boat!
As each plank went down we tabbed in place with a thickened (microfibres) resin mixAs you can see from the photo below this was before we discovered the joy of using the cable ties! We did two planks at a time (each side) and waited for them to go off coming back each day to add the next round - a bit long winded but perfect for fitting around the rest of one's life!
Stuff we used for planking the hull:
Hand plane
Cable Ties
Resin
Microfibres
Hardener
Digital Scales for resin/hardener mix
Plastic tubs
Gloves
tongue depressors for the fillets
Hand drill
Hand plane
Cable Ties
Resin
Microfibres
Hardener
Digital Scales for resin/hardener mix
Plastic tubs
Gloves
tongue depressors for the fillets
Hand drill
Some form of weights to hold the middle panel in place until it's cured, I found some dive weights in the sail loft that we used. Same ones used in the panel joining.
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