Rubrails. Floor suports

Fitting rubrails was a bigger job: I carved the stem to half-oval, tempered at the front. Now I needed to match a profile to fit this compound shape. Same at the aft where I already added some curvature.
Oh well, on my next boat I’ll keep all square and boring. For now I need to play with a bit more complicated fits.

One drawback of having the hull painted already is that some of this paint needs to go away for gluing. Preparing the stem for rubrail.

Anticipating that there will be a lot of squeeze-out epoxy I prepared my secondary job: additional floor supports. Some medium-difficult geometry conditions.

One trick for those who mess-up measurements by a millimeter: an old brass screw can make up for missed length. Epoxy is a wonderful stuff.

Port-side rubrail glued yesterday.

Floor supports used part of the squeeze-out, the rest was used for filleting in the bilge.

Temperature at night dropped to 3 degrees above freezing. Too low. Epoxy did not cure entirely overnight so I waited with clamps removal till late afternoon.

Today I fitted and glued starboard rubrail. Just in case I cranked the kerosene stove so I can continue work early morning tomorrow.

And yes - you cannot have too many clamps!