Topsides

The bottom of the hull is made out of 8mm thick red cedar while pretty much everything else is made of foam.  This boat has a hard chine the separates the topsides from the bottom (foam from wood).  So after we finished strip planking and sanded it fair then sealed and denibbed it was time to attached the topsides.  We did this in much the same fashion that we attached the topsides on the dory - used a spling plank.  Then we realized that there was a quicker way - a spling guage.  It is a small piece of aluminum that we fashioned and shaped to run allong the chine and draw a line onto the foam to give us the shape that we should cut.  The boat is too long to use just one piece of foam so we simply attach three separate pieces on either side of the boat.