Saturday, October 21, 2006

Dagger board box


One of today's jobs was to assemble the box that the daggerboard slides through. The box was made of 9mm plywood on each side with spacers at each end to hold it all together and give it strength. Once all the pieces were coated with epoxy to seal them from the water, they were epoxied together then glued with a marine sealant into the hole I bravely cut into the floor of the boat! In this picture, the box is screwed into place between a couple of bulkheads. All you can see of the box is the top of it, dark brown, behind this bulkhead. After screwing and gluing it all into place, I noticed I have hidden the tops of a couple of screws holding on the temporary brace. Another 'whoops'

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