Central Girder

Made a start on the central girder, this is going to take some time and I have a feeling that I may be short of 19×22 cedar for this, I may substitute some 22×13 cedar that I seem to have an excess of, I don’t think it will have any structural implications.

Ive been popping around boot fairs recently trying to gain extra clamps and tools.etc and managed to get a fretsaw and sander for £40 Bargain!
 First I aligned the cut girder on the build base with the frame lines I drew on earlier, this was checked and measured and checked again. I measured from bow to transom and transom to bow to ensure that the measurement were correct.

I have cut the front end of the girder to the plans but it seems to look slightly different to Dave’s. I don’t think its a big issue, i will take another look tonight and see how it goes.

Don’t worry about the front components of the girder looking a little thick, I have to still cut  them down.

Still need to check/cut these holes out under the little piece of wood on both girder halves.

Ive got the issue that the left hand side of the build platform has begun to droop somewhat, I will disassemble this evening and reconstruct it with a little more support prior to gluing everything up (don’t want a wonky girder).

Still got more cutting to go and a dry clamp up to ensure all the edges and joints fit together properly. Then gluing will commence (providing that I have enough epoxy left).

I have procured syringes simmilar to the one below to measure out small quantities of epoxy and also to apply them neatly to the girder and frames, it also allows me to control the fillets a little better.

I will be mixing West System high density filler 404  with the West System Epoxy to create a high strength adhesive and filleting mix. This should make a nice strong glue that will squeeze out of the syringes happily.