Rapid progress on a Reuel Parker periagua

We had a good day today in the Boatsmith shop.We scarphed the plywood together and cut out the bow and stern transoms. It's a lot like the Sabot I built when I was thirteen, just stretched out a few feet. It sure goes faster with epoxy.

Here we have set the bottom and transoms and the frames on a table with blocks underneath to establish the rocker.

We then offered up some 1/4" plywood for the sides. Once they were scribed and cut out we glued them in place with super glue and little blocks of wood to hold the shape while we made epoxy fillets. A fair amount of attention was required at this point to adjust everything so that it all ended up fair and sweet.

Twas mighty warm in the Boatsmith shop today (98 degrees). The only advantage and sometime disadvantage is that epoxy goes off really fast. This means that you can't dawdle but it also means (as we prefer fast hardener) that you can really truck. Here we have epoxy filleted the inside of the hull.

In this shot we have taped the outside corners with 1708 6" tape and then quickly applyed a coat of microballoons tp fair the cloth in. This tape is on the heavy side but will make for a more durable hull and appling the micro ballons while the epoxy is still semicured saves us from having to sand pure fiberglass in between. All in all pretty good.