Start Scraping Interior

With it being such a busy time of the year, I haven't gotten as far as I'd hoped (a familiar theme). There's been the usual insanity with Christmas preparation/family stuff, but I've been lucky enough to get the whole week off from Christmas day. Unfortunately the weather has also been pretty crappy lately so I've lost a lot of time (oh, for a decent boat-shed), however I have made some small progress.

I attached those temporary gunwales and used some left over cedar strips for spreader sticks. These I stapled to the gunwales and they seem to work ok.




I left the molds sitting in the hull, hopefully they can help maintain the shape a bit.



Yesterday I spent loads of time scraping glue from the inside of the hull. What a tedious, mind-numbing process that is. A couple of essential tools for the job are an ipod and a limited intellect (both of which I happen to possess). I found a narrowish chisel to be the best tool, but I couldn't help sometimes gouging the planking with the corners of the chisel whilst ploughing away in a drooling stupor. Anyway, I somehow managed to get about half of the hull scraped. In the photo below, the scraped section appears to be a little bit rough but that's just an illusion. It is actually quite rough. Hopefully once I sand the interior, it will look somewhat better.








This is how far I got. Hopefully it won't take too long to get it ready for sanding. I'm pretty keen to get the inside all cleaned up and fiber glassed. The last thing I 'd want to happen now would be for water to get in or the hull to start distorting.