Project Log: Saturday, September 1, 2012
Sticking with the forward cabin, I worked on the
overhead support cleats. I'd already done the layout and
cut the cleats to length, so despite my inclination to
dread the job, it went quite quickly.
After washing the bonding surfaces with acetone, I
applied polyurethane adhesive and secured the cleats
with temporary screws, as I'd done elsewhere with the
overhead. |
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Just forward of the end of the cabin trunk, with its
curved profile, I needed a curved section of cleat in
order to secure what would become the aft edge of the
overhead. For this, I used a 4" wide strip of
plywood to scribe the necessary shape, and cut out a 1"
wide curved strip to fit. Afterwards, I installed
it with glue and screws. |
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I moved on to the plywood cleats to surround the
deadlight flats I'd been working to create. Armed
with plywood cleat stock, a portable miter box and hand
saw, epoxy adhesive, and hot glue, I cut and fitted the
rhomboid-shaped cleats around the deadlight openings,
working off the reference lines I'd laid out before.
In a few places, where curvature was more pronounced, I
used clamps through the openings to hold the cleats
while the adhesive cured; elsewhere I relied on the hot
glue to do the same. |
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There was something wholly unsatisfying about this work.
Necessary as it was, the end result lacked interest or
appeal of any kind, but was an important means to an end
that I was happy to expunge from my mental list, and a
few steps closer to getting to the finishing-off work in
yet another compartment of the boat.
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Total Time Today: 3.75 hours
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