Additional rubrail
With day-job taking most of my time during workdays I work on boatbuilding mostly at night. I aim to make a bit of progress every day.
It is still cold at nights - temperature dropping to five degrees Celcius - so I need to crank up kerosene stove so that glue job has a chance to cure overnight.
Last few evenings I was shaping and installing additional rubrails.
Now: these are not in plans and Ilur is complete without them. However - I like this beefy, cocky look of boats with double rubrails. They remind me traditional Polish fishing boats. And Ilur is based on fishing boat, ain’t it?
Anyway - apart from the look there are advantages to have these second rubrails on plywood boat: they protect bottom edge of the sheer strake, they further stiffen the hull and provide timber surface to mount boom-tent hooks or other auxiliary fittings. Weight penalty is very low.
As I was gluing bungs which close screw holes on rubrails I also installed bronze screws which further reinforce quarter knees at the transom. It ain’t go nowhere now!