Project Log: Wednesday, March 16, 2011
With most of an afternoon available, it seemed a good
time to remove the clamps and braces from the cabin
sides, now that the adhesive had had several days to
fully cure.
Once I'd cleared away the clamps and clutter, I used a
router equipped with a bearing-guided straight bit to
trim the excess plywood from the insides of the port
openings. Don't blame me if the openings look
ragged: the cut openings in the fiberglass were
ragged, and the router only followed the existing
contours. Of course this didn't matter since the
ports would hide the edges anyway. |
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Before repeating the overall process in the forward
cabin, I took a moment to saw away the excess cured foam
from above the level of the water tank. |
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I made paper patterns of the cabin trunk sides in the
forward cabin, just as I'd done in the main cabin last
weekend, drawing a 2" offset tracing onto the paper with
a scribe and 2" wide straight rule where possible. |
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I transferred the patterns to a sheet of 1/4" cherry
plywood and cut the pieces out. Because of the
size and contours of the radiused corner between the
cabin trunk sides and its leading edge, it wasn't
possible for the plywood to conform to such a tight,
small radius, so I needed to trim an inch off each side
of the forward piece. This would leave a gap
between the sides and forward piece that I'd later cover
with trim in a traditional way. |
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Unfortunately, I ran out of available time, so although
I'd hoped to be able to cut the rough port openings in
the sides and epoxy/varnish coat the plywood, I had to
leave those steps for the next time.
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Total Time Today: 2.5 hours
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