First Half of the Bottom Done.

After adding a couple of strips below the waterline I was approaching the chine. It isn't a sharp corner but on some frames it has a small radius. I thought about cutting a few strips in half so the narrower strips would better fit around the corner. In the end I continued with the 16 mm strips and think I got away with it. towards the stern I had to bevel both strips to get a good joint.

As the ends of the strips passed the centre line they became shorter and easier to fit particularly on the flatter section of the bottom. A quick swipe with the Robo Bevel ensure a good fit for the next strip. Here's a photo at the start of the day after the previous days clamps and tape had been removed.

In the next photo another strip has been fitted. The tape is closing up the joint until the glue takes hold which might take a couple of hours. The spring clamps are holding slotted pieces of plywood to hold the strip down.

The tape and clamps can't be removed until the glue has set enough to hold the strip. To speed things up hot melt glue "stitches" were used to hold the joint together. The stitches are simply blobs of hot melt glue placed across the join every 60 or 70 mm. These hold the join together and allow the tape and spring clamps to be removed. This speeds up the process a lot allowing a couple of strips to be added in an hour.

Here's a photo with all the port side strips in place. Tomorrow the centre line will be marked and the excess material cut off with a hand saw and the cleaned up with a plane.