Outside for the second time

My friend Jens helped me to turn the boat over. Also got some help cleaning out the garage and as bonus, he borrowed my table saw that has played out its role and nowadays mostly is in my way. 

Some more planing

A bit of work with the planes, and it starting to look pretty good!

Moving forward

Sanded the interior, two layers of epoxy, glued in the inwale, and fitted the knees. 

Looks very messy, but it will be alright when all parts are planed and sanded to a continuous curvature (I hope). 

Starboard gunwale

Added distances for the inwales and the oak cap for the gunwale

Then I mocked up the inwales so that I could mark how much to take off the top of the sidearms. 

Finally I started the hard but satisfying work of planing down the gunwales to the ply edge. Port side is almost there..

Next step is to do a lot of sanding of the interior, so that I can coat it before I fit the inwales. Not too much epoxy left, so I have to take a trip to NM Epoxy again and buy some more. 

Some more hardware

Learnt about a company in town which dismantle old boats for recycling. Sorted through some of their boxes and found a number of blocks as well as an aluminium track that I might use at the outhaul. Paid SEK 200 (€20) for the lot. 

Without clamps

One side done, one to go

Lots of small wooden blocks..

Sanded most of the distance blocks needed for the inwale by hand and pre-drilled holes for fasteners. Then glued port side spacers, port gunwale cap, a small strip of oak at the bow, and for luck scarfed some strips of ply that eventually will become the sides of my box boom. 

Used screws for the spacers and almost every clamp I could find for the gunwale cap.