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[Cracker Larry]

That deck is sure looking good Joel

[Stuff]

Joel
Is looking awesome. You should sale panels cut in strips for people that want to do the same.

[jacquesmm]

i'm thinking of that . . . The planks could be cut with little tabs used as spacers. Once installed and glued on the hull, the builder will cut through the tabs and proceed with the seams same as Joel does.
It would eliminate the need for the spacers and the whole deck can be glued in one setting.

[glossieblack]

Presumably the process would be a bit like gluing down a sole - in this case get all the planks and glue in place, use weights on top to hold them down, and clamps around the perimerter to stop the planks sliding down the frames' camber?

[jacquesmm]

Look at Joel's pictures: he glues the strips to the framing.

[tech_support]

stripping is just about finished. the last few strips on the outside will not have a space between, they are going to be glassed over and become part of the wide red stripe that runs along the edge of the deck

[glossieblack]

Looking sooooooo good!

Edit: Just found this pic posted by Joel on Bateau's facebook site - illustrates Joel's approach to painting the edge of the deck.

[ks8]

looking forward to the next update, when its ready.

[robbiro]

Nothing like GOOD Boat PORN to keep us wanting more!!!

[tech_support]

got a few solid hours of work on the boat yesterday, today is the first day in a couple years where its too cold to work with epoxy (its mid 40's )

glued the last few planks on right before new years, the last few are going to be covered up by a stripe, so I only needed to butter them up (epoxy) and clamp them on, no gaps.




Yesterday I shaped the strips to the sheer. used a circular saw set to just over 3/8" depth and cut it pretty close, then used a grinder and belt sander to bring it flush.






Next came the transom, then cockpits. Very rewarding to see the shape.