I'm not really happy with the look at the bow. I am considering gluing a piece on and shaping it so it blends with the gunwale and extend them to a rounded point about 1/2" in front of the bow.
I also finally got the deck carlins on. Those are the pieces of timber running along the sheer of the boat inside of the hull. They will support the inner part of the deck. They took about 3 times as long as I suspected for several reasons:
1. One piece had some pretty severe grain runout, so it snapped when I tried to bend it into place. I had to cut another scarf and re-glue.
2. I mismeasured the location of a block, requiring me to chisel it off after gluing, and once again, re-scarph and re-glue the carlin.
3. Clamping the carlins properly was very difficult as with all the curves it wasn't easy to get the clamps to hold correctly.
With all of the adjusting and trimming and awkward clamping it was a slow process, by they are on.
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