Monday, April 26, 2010

Cockpit stringers


İ finished epoxing the hull stringers. No real issue there except for the fact that one really needs to be creative in order to find a way to laminate them without setting foot inside the boat.
İndeed, my 83 kgs would bend the hull plywood downwards making it impossible to laminate from the hull, which would have been really convenient.
So it might seem like a simple issue to solve but be my guest ! İ ended up doing some contorsionism laying belly down on my magical alu stair wich İ had placed flat across the hull....
Not a pleasant scene, İ reckon. At 42 years of age and 3 broken back vertebra, İ am not really as elegant as those Cirque du Soleil tiny Chinese acrobats....
Anyways it worked out pretty well and my bottom hull is now really strong. Those stringers make all the difference.










On the picture below, you can see the front stringers which are actually the fwd berth supports, placed and aligned but not yet laminated. İ used a string which İ pulled all the way from the transom to make sure all stringers were perfectly aligned. Hard to take a picture but all hull stringers from f214 to f53.5v are now pretty much forming a straight line from stern to stem.
Should be pretty efficient at adding rigidity to the whole hull and distributing efficiently load forces on the keel box.

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