Today I start sanding and sanding and sanding getting ready for the fiberglass on the bottom panels. I've started easy to make sure everything works out and it seems like it won't be too much of a pain. One of the skerry blogs suggested using a cabinet scraper on the glue and that seems to work quite nicely. Now I have a whole routine - start with the rasp on the really chunky pieces, then move on to the cabinet scraper, then finish off with sandpaper.
I also got to shape the bow and stern stems. Seems that my gains were cut fairly well and I didn't sand too far into the ply (with the usual few exceptions). Now the bow and stern have a nice flat cut into them and look fairly smooth. There's a bit more work to be done rounding them over, and I also have to patch a few small holes in the bow, but looks like I should be ready for the fiberglass in about 2 days. I started the shaping with the rasp, cleaning off the edge a bit, then followed up with the block plane. I was a bit skeptical that the plane would work but it did beautifully, probably much better than the rasp would have been able to. I think I'll round everything over with the sander...
Time: 1 hour
Total: 48 hours
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