Day 39 - Spacer Blocks for Gunwales

After a long break I have finally returned to boat building. Since the last post one of the laminated knees for the forward thwart started to delaminate. This is a bit of a mystery and I can only guess that the problem was caused by glueing it while there was too much moisture in the timber (I had to soak them to achieve the required bend). I glued up another knee today.

I also glued the centre thwart in place. The parts were all shaped and ready to go so this was a quick job.

I glued about 3/4 of the spacer blocks for the inner gunwale. This is a tedious job because there are a lot of them, about 40 of them on each side of the boat. The spacers are 55 mm long with a nominal 75 mm gap between them. Marking out their positions involed several iterations to get them spaced evenly taking into account the position of the thwart knees.

Today's pics show the spacer blocks towards the stem and aft of the centre thwart (still with their clamps in place).