Steaming the hulls
Last week I spent making the deck jig. This yet again nice measuring, drawing, cutting, glueing and screwing task. This was done in normal Finnish fall weather (means that it was cold, wet and dark). I planned to steam and torture both of the hulls on Sunday but making the deck jigs was such a big task that I only could torture the first hull into shape before Monday.
Luckily I managed to negotiate a slave (Tuomas) to help me on Monday and we both left work early in the afternoon to torture the second hull. Before we got to steaming the hull my dad also joined us so for the first time I really had a team working with me. While torturing the hulls the gunwale glue decided not to hold and the some of the gunwales popped out so this will have to be fixed next time.
Thanks to Tuomas “the little Japanese with the camera” I have plenty of pictures of the steaming and some of them are included below.
Preparing:
Ready for action:
Steaming:
Bow will be broken when torturing, sawing makes the breaking line straight:
More steaming:
Hulls side by side (note missing gunwales):
Forcing transom into place with car jack:
Transom almost fit, I decided to use birch plywood templates for now (didn’t have time to plan and cut the Okume):
Other side of the transom:
Bow (note missing gunwales):
