Making parts

I'm at the point of the build where rather than making pieces for the boat structure, I'm making a bunch of parts for sailing: mast partner, mast step, centerboard case, centerboard, rudder and such.  It's a bunch of marking and cutting without much to show for it.  I'm trying to save up the glues jobs so I can get a bunch done at once and minimize the waste.  When gluing flat panels, there is a lot of squeeze-out.  If I have several things to glue, I just put the squeeze-out on the next part and keep chugging along.



The plans for the mast partner specify a simply trapezoidal shape.  I didn't care for it, so I drew a more curvy version.  I cut out the 1st piece a few days ago and after marking and cutting some other pieces I cut the last 2 pieces out of remaining scrap.  It's a three piece lamination of 1/2" ply.  I'm pretty sure half the glue I used came out after clamping, hence the plan to glue several things at once and take advantage of all of my clamps.  This pic is after removing most of the squeeze-out.

This morning I cleaned up lamination and beveled the rear for mounting.  I will dry fit it tomorrow and then glue it once I have a handful of things to glue.  The mast step is next on the list.

I also didn't care for the bluntness of the bow (seen below) after cutting the gunwales to length.  It's looked a bit sphinx-like, as if it's nose was chopped off.

So I epoxied on a chunk of wood.  I wasn't sure how I was going to clamp it.  I ended up just using duck tape pulled tight.  Once the epoxy cured it only took about 20 minutes to go from this:

to this.

Not it looks like it's ready to go forth upon the water.