Week 25: Third Chines are Charming

Having been hanging with weights for a week, the new chine blanks were ready to cut and fit into place.

Chines in order of production. Doesn’t that third set, on the right, looks so pretty with their pre-bent curves?

Funny thing, though, was a knot in the starboard chine, in a bad place as far as the curve behind the frame toward the stern was concerned. I was worried that it was going to break, despite its own pre-bending.

The starboard chine …

So I swapped the port and starboard chines.

… becomes the port chine.

After that it was a matter of measuring angles and cutting and fitting, which I’d already done once before with an earlier set of chines. So that went pretty smoothly.

Chines are ready.

They are ready to be installed. I’m really, really ready to get that done.

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