Expedition Wherry Planks and Bulkheads

The CLC Expedition Wherry is moving right along.

I've finished the three planks for each side (six total). I will have to say that the CLC puzzle joints are pretty great. They snug together well and do not need weighing down like the straight butt-joints that Pygmy used. And they seem to be very strong even without any fiberglass cloth or tape over the joints.

Yesterday I finished epoxying on the "doublers" and cleats on the bulkheads. Today I cleaned them up, and now they're all ready to go.

Here's bulkhead #1:

One last job now before assembling the hull: The sheer stringers. Today I epoxied the scarf joints for them and tomorrow I'll clean those up and then epoxy the stringers to the #3 panels at the sheer line. CLC has you do this before you assemble the boat. My guess is that the stress put on the straight epoxy joint at the sheer is less of an issue than trying to make a fair curve on the sheer after forming the boat. I think this way you'll get a more air sheer line in plan (deck) view than if you epoxied it on later.

More later,

Aloha!

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