Things at the shop took a little longer than expected. The rear passenger seat didn't quite fit into place. Lots of unique angles to work with. (We were getting cocky) I think the cardboard model we used was bending to accomodate these angles. So, when we transfered the lines to rigid plywood it just didn't work out.
The solution for today was to add height to the aft corner of the seat. I cut out 4 wedges of plywood, all with a max height of 1". Those edges were lamello-ed and glued then glassed onto the original cutouts. Hopefully tomorrow things will fit together well. I also cut 3/8" off one of the sides as we'd forgotten to account for the plywood thickness when we transfered the cardboard line to the wood. This is the first slow down/redo that we've had so far...not bad I'd say.
Other tasks which were accomplished today:
Glued and filleted the floor riser/hatch partition in the boatman's foot well. -Tomorrow the boatman's floor goes in.
Got the aft thwart fully glued and filleted. -Looks true and a nice angle.
Filled the transom's top edge and bow post with fairing compound. (round 2)
Filled screw holes with putty.
Roughed up the surfaces which will be filletted in the future
Filled voids in the plywood of the thwarts.
Tasks I'm dreaming up:
Shelf for my ukulele.
Drain-through tile for the passenger seats.
Aluminum gutters for the hatches.
Old-school notch in the transom "Powell style".
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