Second strake no.1
Rainy but warm and steamy. We are sweating like pigs. I worked during the day to adjust bevels and cut gains for the second strake, with aim to glue the second strake before night.
Starboard garboard beveled.
As stated in plans - strake edges shall disappear at stem and transom. As the garboard is heavily twisted at stem I cut a deep and aggressive gain for the second strake.
Several back&forth dry fitting during the day, to trim and fine tune bevels.
Nicely enough - the plank lands on the spot, according to plans.
Early evening the temperature drops a bit so I move onto gluing. Priming with thin epoxy on all plywood end-grain comes first. Then quick spreading of thickened epoxy and the plank is hanged with help of all my clamps.
In the fore area, where flotation tanks will be, there is no access to clamp the new plank so I screw it to the garboard with bronze screws. They will be left in situ, bedded in epoxy to seal them properly from water.
I leave the setup to cure overnight.
Earlier in the build I was wondering if the strakes will be long enough to accommodate for my thicker transom. Mahogany which I glued as a external face of the transom is 9mm thick. I took the risk.
They do. But on the margin of just a few millimeters.