Decking the first ama (2)

Five hours of work today, and we're still not done. We cut two of the large 3/4" (20 mm) plywood disks (pads) that will be glued to the decks to strengthen the aka fastening. Those are pretty big: for each ama hull there's a 53 cm dia pad and a 40 cm dia one. We discovered that one plywood panel is apparently not enough to cut all 20 mm pieces, so the two smaller pads will be cut from a two glued layers of 10 mm plywood.
Here we are in the middle of our jigsaw puzzle game

and here is the first of the two large pads. The center hole has a diameter of 1" (25 mm) and will be filled with thickened resin to make a high strength bond of the steel stud to the hull.

We then cut the two 20 mm thick butt blocks for the deck. Here's the forward one.

We spent more time then expected to measure, cut the bevels, and finish the blocks to fit between the beveled stringers.

The day after (Sunday 5th) I was out of town but Cinzia worked two more hours to complete some tids and bits, so it looks like we're ready to close the hull and glue everything.

Total work time to date: 174 hours