14 th December.

Had to go to town today so popped into a friends workshop who has a huge hydraulic plate bending machine and put the angles on the chainplates.

 Bow chainplate with 20 degree bend -

Shroud chainplate prefitted with 32 and 22 degree bends for shroud and maybe a lower shroud. (guessed the angles but think they are close)  Lowers not on the plans but might be nice if heading into stormy areas.  Im fitting them now to get the hole positions so I can overdrill the holes with bigger holes to fill with epoxy.  I can then fit the bolts in solid epoxy for final fixing.  Okume plywood is softer than pine ply so am putting an extra 10mm bolt through the sheer stringer as well as having an extra 2 layers of epoxy glass on the outside in the area which you might be able to see in the photo.  I would like to have most of the fittings to be mounted onto the hull and deck made and fitted with reinforcing before glassing the deck.  

Inside of galley box now has its first coat of polyurethane paint.  Light sand and second coat tomorrow.