Main hull, port panel (1)

Six hours of work today. We spent about one hour to grind off the epoxy drained through the screw holes of the ama inboard panels, which the masking tape was not able to stop. We then turned to the first of the two main hull side panels. The main hull panels are mirror image of each other and we started with the port side.
Here are the three sections aligned and screwed on the flat out table

We then prebored the stringers on 30 cm centers, prepared the thickened resin (we used 350 gram plus thickener), spread it on the gluing surfaces and screwed down the stringers. Here's Cinzia spreading the glue for the sole stringer.

By the way, one drawing in the plans shows that the sole stringer is screwed from the outside, but the building method does not allow it for now. We won't use those screws at all, both because the epoxy glue is so strong, and because the sole stringer is also supported by the vertical stiffeners between it and the bottom stringer.
Here is the panels with all stringers glued and screwed down.

Finally, we cut to size and prebored the butt blocks, the vertical stiffeners and the bulkhead landing stringers. Since we use 5-ply plywood, we can avoid the upper vertical stiffener (between the sole stringer and the deck stringer).
Here's a view of all this stuff ready for the gluing (which we'll hopefully make tomorrow).

Total work time to date: 81 hours