Half of a bottom.

Or initial intent was to get both bottom half's on. With that intent we fitted one side, then the other.  We started gluing on the first side and that took way longer than we anticipated.  We found that the staples we were using would not hold.  Haven't figured that on out yet but we wound up using packing tape and temporary screws.  The other side will have to wait until the weather gets better.  Expecting real cold weather this week.

Here is George applying the epoxy

Packing tape, clamps and screws hold it on until it dries.

 George cleaning up the squeeze out.

Ready for the bottom.

I got most everything faired and glued in. I shave down the stringers to match the angle of the bottom.  The stringers got twisted when we bent them. The butt joint in  the pix is held straight by a temp  stick. 

Chine log

The stringers fit the boat quite well.  I shaved the side rail to take the bottom.  Next up is to glue the stringers in and fit the bottom butt joint support in place.  Coming along nicely.

Cutting the chine log with my second most favorite tool, the electric planer.  My most favorite tool is the belt sander!!!

 This is George rounding over the corners of the stringers that will sit in the bottom of the boat.

Stringers

We got the old stringers cleaned up( what was left of them.) and new wood scarfed to them.  We decided to use the old ones because they have the original curve still stuck in the wood.  That should give us the same bow configuration, which on this boat, is different than a standard cates. 

                                              That angle bend is just a clamp that slipped during the test fit.

This is where the stringers came from.

Got them glued up and test fitted.   Looks good.

Looks like a boat

I got the rails fitted to the frame.  I had to add an extra 6 inches to the rails because the 12 foot section that I made didn't fit.   

Everything glued in.

Stringers and rails

I got the stringers cut out.  We're using select pine for this.  That's probably not the best wood  but it's easily available and has no knots.  We ran it thru the planer to get the rails down to 1/2 inch.  The stringers came out to 1x5/8.  I used my table top sander to make the scarfs.  Everything is now 12 feet long.

What we have

So, here we are.  This is what's left.  We have a keel, a DB case and the stem.  Well, most of the stem.  George and I spent about two hours removing the rest of the bow section.  We were hoping to get the panels off intact but that didn't happen.  We're starting from scratch.

 We  made a transom.

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We also did stringers and the side shear/chine log.