Rough cutting the stringers

This was a very productive weekend. I am sunburned and the stringers and main bulkheads are cut and one side resined. Cutting stringers is HARD WORK! My father in law came over and helped me and that really helped alot. I ran into a few snags throughout the process but I was able to recover and move on down the road.

Here are some pictures and a video. The video is not my best, but I was really moving this weekend and my brain was on auto pilot.


Here is how I will bed the stringers once they are all cut.

1. Use small slivers of pink foam to hold the stringers off the hull about 1/2"
2. Squirt PL under the stringer and mush it in with a tongue depressor
3. Come back with PB and make my Fillets. I really do not like to use Pl for fillets as it tends to bubble as it dries.


The black line is the Deck height. I will cut the stringers to height later.

This is actually where the main stringers stop. It steps in here and continues to the front.

I cut the rest of the front stringers out as I have the height I need.

New Front stringers

I test fit the stank, just to make sure everything was perfect.

Using the mirror method (see video for explanation) of tracing the stringers. You suspend the stringer above the hull and put a market on the end of the long stick. You then drag that stick along the hull and it will trace the contour on the stringer.

A coat a slow kick Poly so it will soak in and help the fiberglass to stick, and waterproof them.