More fairing! Ok, so I still haven't been very good at keeping up with the blog. It just takes too much time from boat building! After nearly 4 months I've finally finished fairing the frame to get ready for plywood planking. Since it's been so long I'll probably end up skipping over a lot of small detail work that I've done as I try to give an update on my current progress. While fairing I made sure to take my time and look down the boards frequently to make sure I was getting the lines and angles desirable for planking. I mostly used my block plan to fair everything down and used a scrap piece of 1/4 ply to check the bevel alignment between the sheer and chine. There were hiccups along the way that I needed to correct. For instance, the boards seemed to be not quite thick enough even though I followed the plans to a T. In the picture below the battens sat a little low in the cutouts I had made in the transom and even the frames. So I used a small ban...
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