After a Christmas break it's time to get back into the build.
Sheer clamp and cabin carlin installation.
The sheer clamps and cabin carlins are milled from Hoop Pine. I like working with this timber, it has a fine grain no knots and is easy to work. I used Hoop Pine for the cabin flooring (see the March 2023 post titled "Floorboard Sealing and Installation"
To assist the installation of the sheer clamps and to enable the timber to bend around the hull without breaking or splintering I decided to steam the timbers.
I used the plastic pipe from my gutter blowing attachment, but any PVC storm water pipe would be OK. In my initial set up I used a kettle to send steam up into the plastic tube, but I found too much heat was lost through the thin plastic tubing and the kettle's thermostat kept turning it off so....
I replaced the kettle with a saucepan and wrapped old towels around the pipe to keep in the heat.
When removed a nice bend is left in the timber.
I placed the sheer clamps in the steamer for 2 hours.
Here you can see the steam exiting out the end of the pipe.
The timbers were immediately clamped in place and left to dry overnight.
The sheer clamps are epoxied in place and left for a couple of days to cure. Lots of clamps were used to hold them in place.
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