Planking

This afternoon, we installed two more planks. We are now half finished with the planking. We started with the other garboard plank. This one fit on like a dream. We got all the screw holes drilled. This included the temporary ones for the sheetrock screws. We counter sunk the ones that needed to be counter sunk and took the plank off for cleaning before the bonding. I mixed up a batch of epoxy and spread it on all the mating surfaces and we placed the plank back on the frames. We had a little trouble finding the first screw hole, but after we located one, the others fell right into place. We had the thing screwed on in no time. Below, you see the finished product.

We decided to go for two since I had all the bevelling done for the middle plank on the other side of the boat. We went through the same process as before and had the second one installed in about an hour. There will be a lap of about 1/8" between the garboard plank and the middle plank. I will plane down the edges of the middle plank and fill the valley between the two planks with epoxy with filler in it. There won't be any water getting between those two planks.

Below you see us almost looking like a boat.