I decided to leave off fairing the deck until its attached to the hull, and get to work on the hull interior.
As expected, there are gaps between the internal stem and the hull at both the bow and stern. I thought about cutting a piece out, but decided on filleting instead.
A hefty fillet was required to fill in the gap. It adds weight, but also adds strength.
Glassing the interior went pretty routinely. I made one discovery-I had trouble getting the glass to adhere near the sheer line last year because the glass wasn't well saturated enough. Its harder to see against the lighter colored wood.
After burying those internal stems in rather massive fillets, I decided on small end pours, just so I'll have something to drill through for the grab loops.
Skeg box in place.
Glassing the underside of the deck went routinely.
I'm using a lot of dark-looking cedar for the whole build. I usually get so absorbed in the technical aspects of stripping that I forget about fancy patterns, so this time I decided not to go for any accent stripes, just the whole deck similar. I have a jolly little dolphin inlay for a decoration.
As always, puzzled over the problem of how to make the transitions at the ends.
I ended up stripping "intuitively", with an interesting pileup of fits and angles.
I end up with strips coming together like this. It looks familiar.
Stretch tape pulling things together.
Sometimes, I can't figure out or plan how to do a detail until I actually start working on it.
A perfect example arose when the deck strips laid from the center started approaching the strips laid from the sheer. I could see that there would be a considerable drop down to the deck level, but I just kept adding strips until I saw what I needed to do.
I don't even call this a "whiskey" plank, because it was Beyond Whiskey ;) I have a clamp bending the top strips down to the deck level, and several clamps trying to make the strips come together. I hope it holds!
It held together just fine, but it produced a sort of concave curve down to the deck. It won't show well in a photo. I puzzled for a while about figuring out a way to push the curve out, but its the same on both sides, and I was afraid of messing it up, so I'm leaving it.
The height difference between the fore and aft edges of the cockpit opening is almost 7", so I'm going for a molded fiberglass rim.
