Rounding the chines

I'm not a huge fan of sharp lines on a boat.  Unfortunately, a stitch and glue boat end of with panels meeting in sharp lines.  A lot of people leave them like this.  I decided to take the time to round them over.

This is what it looked like.  By looking toward the stern on the right you can see the sharp line where the chines meet.

and this is what it looks like after rounding the chines over.

Upside down

IT was time to flip the boat and work on the bottom.  Last weekend I put together a support system out of some oriented strand board.  Then I had some friends help me flip it, which took all of about 3 minutes as it doesn't weight much more than 100 lbs.  Now it will be a lot of hours of sanding, fiberglassing, and painting.

I'm just about done with that hole centerboard thing.

The metal working took a while.  I had to cut and shape flat bar to hook the raising/lowering rod to, then find a way to attach the rod.  Then I had to cut the pin and covers.  It all took a while.  I still need to make a handle for the end of the rod, but I'm not quite sure what I want to do, so I'm going to wait.

I decided to fill the circle in with some epoxy so it wouldn't slop and band around as much.

I cut some bar to length and then screwed it and epoxied it to the board.  After testing, I had to cut some of the ends as they were a little too long and would bang into the top of the case when dropping the board.

I over drilled the holes for the pin so I could fill it in with epoxy.  This will both seal the plywood edges as well as provide a bushing to reduce wear on the hole.

Then I cut some plates to cover the pin and seal it.  I need to get some rubber sheet or similar to use as a gasket.

 Final step was to fit it in place and cut the centerboard slot.  Tomorrow I'll epoxy it in.