Got to the shed tonight and it was a little cool. This chasing the temperature around needs to stop and will probably require getting a different heater. I'm getting tired of having to worry about it and deal with it.
Anyways, pulled the screws from the scarfs, trimmed the edges and did a little scraping. It's interesting that even in these cooler temperatures that the epoxy is almost fully set up in 24 hours versus the 72 hours it was taking before. Suspect number one is the iceberg that had formed in the resin. Clearly the chemical properties of the resin has changed, but fortunately I'm at a point where having it set up in 24 hours is actually a good thing and lets me move along more quickly.
Took the large piece of scarfed plywood and propped it on the hull and traced the shape, measured the offset, put in the nails, stretched the batten and drew the line.
Looks familiar doesn't it?
Cut out the first one with the jigsaw, traced it again and cut the second one, cut scarfs on the ends and went to do a test fit. It'll work, but there's going to be a lot of pulling, prodding, pushing, stitching and clamping to get everything tight.
Put the straight pieces from yesterday on the floor and screwed them down, mixed up some epoxy and glued up the scarfs to the curved pieces.
Good work finished tonight. Tomorrow will be challenging, but I can see that this might get flipped this weekend.
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