28 Aug 22:
Time to cut a hole in a perfectly good boat. We drilled a pilot hole for the jig saw, cut what we could from the inside then flipped the boat. Oops, first we shaped the ends of the trunk posts, they stick through the hull and will be cut flush with the bottom. Shinto rasp does the trick for this bit of butchery. Rounding the post keeps there from being hard corners, which can lead to stres points, cracks and leaks.
Used the Japanese pull saw to finish the straight line. Those cuts will be our reference on the bottom for where to start the curved ends.
I rough trimmed the curved ends with the jigswa...that's spelled wrong, but I like it... then used a half round file to clean up the cut. Next was a test fit of the trunk and we dropped the daggerboard in to see if we made the slot wide enough. We did.
We rolled out the boat and tested out the shade behind the Boat Works, the French door will open onto this area. Skipper approved. We'll make a little quarterdeck with bricks we found in the forest, where Skipper can Skippervise from.
Trunk fastened with THIXO Flex. Fastned from the bottom with #10 Frearson head silicon bronze screws, piloted and countersunk.
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