Transom

We determined that the best way to attach the transom would be to attach it to the deck and then build up a flange on the hull and squash bond it.  However, this did require so amount of manipulation of the 15th frame that was already set up.  We would also glass down the transom when we glassed the rest of the outside of the deck and so we had to move the frame in by the thickness of the transom and glass and resin.  This part was fairly easy, but because it was now further forward we had to sand back the cockpit side part of the frame so that it would not change the shape.  We also had to figure out what the exact shape of the transom would be.  We could have just done some manipulations of the drawing on autoCAD and printed it out full scale on the large printer but clovegro wanted us to learn how to do things by hand because he 'reckons that you young dudes will forget and the stuff that has been passed on for generations will be lost.'  So what we did was trace the shape of the transom top from the temporary frame and then the bottom from the inside of the hull and simply measure down and connect the two drawings.  We also had to then make sure that the transom would not hit the floor.  We had not allowed for the transom to be attached to the deck and so we were still not sure if the frames were high enough off the ground.  Once we had the pattern for the transom we then confirmed that we had enough room if we removed some of the building base and then made the transom and attached it to the rest of the deck.