Email to Clyde on Day's Work, with photos on Frame Glue Joint Refreshment

[bob mitchell]

hello clyde,

pretty good day today. before I could do anything else I had to make next eight feet of outer clamp so I could put the first eight feet to bed, and maybe lay a plank someday, but that got me into tearing out the next eight feet of side planking, which got me into removing the rotten chainplate blocks, which lead me to see some bad deck, and so I decided to deal  with some deck beams in that area, as well as the deck and side of the cabin below the windows - probably just eliminate those windows and leave it solid till fiberglassed.. But before any of that I scribed the next outer clamp piece and made it, so I have a reference off the deck that will get torn up some, especially on ougter edges. So as soon as I scarf the upper parts of 3 or 4 frames I will be ready!    Seeing as all that is happening I went out and bought a new tarp, positioned my boom truck boom, and set up for whatever comes. Sticking with my plan of starting at the front and rebuilding back. The first plank will just have to wait - but now that I am comfortable with applying that plank it does not matter.

        I was getting tired, so I hit Nikki's for a couple cups of coffee and hit it hard again, testing out different hole locations and sizes to achieve a glue joint refreshment. The picture shown is the ideal, with 3/4 to 1 1/2 oz. of epoxy, slighty thinned with acetone, going into each hole, and then visibly oozing out of the side. Some holes would not take any, but most took aboout 3/4 oz. Other hole locations were not as effective for various reasons. The holes were drilled just to the oak/plywood gusset intersection, and not further.  I feel it was definitely worth the effort, but can be improved upon. I add one more photo to show the difference between an exhausted glue area and a sound glue area on the chine.         

     friend bob