Saturday, December 21, 2013

Main hull floor panels

Back to the shop for 4 hours today. We redrew and cut the main hull floor panels from 10 mm thick plywood. This proved trickier than expected. First of all, the suggested nesting diagram is a very tight fit for the forward and mid floor panels, as shown in the photo below. Consider also that our panels are 6 cm longer than the standard length (2.50 m vs. 2.44 m), so the fit on a standard panel will be even worse.


Moreover, we found several "off" points which caused evident unfair spots on the curves. In particular, the width at the transom end of the floor panel seems about 1 cm too large per side. So we deduced the width both from the drawings and from the real transom and were able to produce a fair curve. I really hope we did it right, but we'll be able to verify this only during the main hull set up.
Here's a picture of the whole main hull floor


We're still waiting for the lumber from the sawmill...

Total work time to date: 27 hours

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