The evening was cold and condensation was forming over just about everything and I remembered that I had left the main hatch on Shoal Waters and Naiad open as well as leaving Naiad’s cockpit cover off to dry. So, I went down to the boats and closed hatches and took the now sodden cover into the workshop.
Whilst I was there I thought that I would get thing ready for tomorrow and glue a small piece of plywood to the piece from which I was going to cut the outer template, it being about 100 mm too short. This would mean that I had a long enough piece of plywood from which to cut the template tomorrow.
Now, the top edge of the cardboard template is straight so it made sense to put this edge on the straight edge of the plywood and cut a piece wide enough to shape the piece tomorrow. So I drew along the curved edge, positioned the plywood and set to with the jigsaw and just cut out the curved bit anyway.
Then I measured up the piece to glue on, glued it on and put two pieces of gash plywood over the butt joint to hold it, took it indoors and propped it up against the Rayburn to warm up.
I hadn’t intended to cut this piece out, but I did it anyway.
Here’s the outer plywood template warming up.
And a close up of the but joint with the two pieces of plywood nailed over the joint to hold it in position whilst the glue dries. The plastic film is to prevent the gash pieces from being glued to the template.
Took all of 30 minutes !
Time for a cup of tea.