PART 2 FRAME GUSSET AND CHINE REPAIR

[bob mitchell]

    The next thing was the chine repair, probably/maybe  below the engine vent location - that area was just a disaster on deck. ( I didn't take the tarps off to look)  As you know, I have done three chine repairs, actually 4, some of which were 10 to 12 inch scarfs on each end, and the other two were backer blocked. The long scarfs are just not worth the trouble and time, so I blocked this one, and felt good about it. I did put a 30 degree bevel at each end of the 3/4 plywood layer of the chine. Of course the backer blocks can only be so long because the frames go in place.  One thing about the chine - if the glue is not totally gone (between the chine and the planking) you can kind of expect to tear up the outer douglas fir layer of the chine. (see featured diagram by Clyde Phillips) In the area containing the engine compartment, where the frames were bad and the planking had to come off because the fuel and water tanks prevented access from the inside of the boat, I will replace a long length of the doug fir outer layer of the chine. This in effect will act as a scarf on its own.

     One might note the grove in the deadwood down below in the right of the picture. This is where one of six 5/8" threaded rods (three on each side)  go that keep the deadwood together beyond the ballast keel's 9 bronze bolts, the last two of which are in the forward half of the engine compartment. (The deadwood is made up of a few doug fir beams that are glued and held together by these rods and the 3/4 plywood sheathing covering the deadwood.)

      I also got the first new frame totally glued up. Note the half lap joint, instead of finger joint in the next lower frame member forward.       friend bob