18-07-11: Filling the deck / The Skeg

After the first sanding I went over the deck with epoxy and sawdust and filled out every small hole and crack.

I have started on the retractable skeg. First I glued togeteher som leftover strips and then I cut out the shape and sanded it.

09-07-11: Cockpit rim

The deck is now done and I am very satisfied with the look of it... On the rear deck some of the strips was placed a bit lover than the others. After trying to sand it by hand for half an hour I changed to the belt sander..  Its very scary to place the belt sander on the deck and start it... It takes a delicate touch...

I cut out a dublicate of hte cockpit  template. I will use this when building the cockpit rim.

The two templates are placed a bit apart with seperators between them.

To hold the shape of hte rim when the templates are removed I glued some strips on top of the cockpit rim.

07-07-11: Last strips on the deck

Now its time for the very last strip on the deck. As you can see I  had to surrender an put in a screw to hold it all in place.

05-07-11: Building the deck II

I am now building from the centerstrips and outward on the front deck.

On the rear deck I build from the sheerline and inward all the way.

03-07-11: Building the deck

When building the deck I had to cut some new narrow strips. All the strips I had cut earlier was about 25mm wide and much to wide to shape the deck curves. I cut a few boards of pine to 12mm wide strips.