I got the stringers from Fyne with the CNC kit and they all came with the scarf joint cut, I just needed to glue them together. They did not fit in the tent that I am building the boat in so I decided the best option was to do them in the hall. I wetted out both sides of the scarf joint and then using West 406 colloidal glued them together. I then used a round over bit in the router to take the edge of the corners that will be facing into the boat.
The next job was to start fitting the stringers onto the frames, this proved to be more difficult than it looked. I started at the transom and worked towards the bow, they took a lot of twisting and bending to get them into position. I put them on in pairs to try and keep the loads equal on each side of the boat.
The stringers went on and off the frames several times as I bevelled the frames to let the strings in. A lot of force was needed to bend and twist them in at the bow, I used ratchet straps on the end of the clamps to twist the stringers into position.
After what seemed like hours and hours of hard work I finally had all the strings on the frames, I checked and double checked all the measurements to make sure none of the frames had moved with the force of the stringers. I had to make a few small tweaks to a few of the frames, when I was happy with everything I glued all the stringers into place.
When all the stringers were in place they needed planing down to take the side and chine panels, this was done using a hand plane.
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