{"id":491,"date":"2022-03-15T17:24:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T17:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hpwd.co.uk\/theslowboatbuilder\/?p=491"},"modified":"2022-03-21T19:19:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T19:19:01","slug":"fairing-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hpwd.co.uk\/theslowboatbuilder\/index.php\/2022\/03\/15\/fairing-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairing Well"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Despite there being quite a lot of work involved in fairing, pictures do not do a good job of showing where the effort has gone. Below you can see the keel being shaped to match the profile of the bulkheads. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At the same time as fairing, I am also preparing the strip planks. I could buy 3.6m lengths (upper arrow in picture below) and needed them to be something over 6m. The stack identified by the lower arrow have been joined with a scarf joint. I have set up to do two at a time, which with some stock built up ahead of time, should keep me going through the planking process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Strip planks, as bought and joined for needed length<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Having finished planing (for now), I tidied the workshop up which served to remind me that boat building is about buying top quality wood at high prices and expending lots of effort to turn a lot of it into bags of wood shavings and sawdust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finally, the frame ready for planking!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Despite there being quite a lot of work involved in fairing, pictures do not do a good job of showing where the effort has gone. Below you can see the keel being shaped to match the profile of the bulkheads. At the same time as fairing, I am also preparing the strip planks. I could… Continue reading Fairing Well<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpwd.co.uk\/theslowboatbuilder\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpwd.co.uk\/theslowboatbuilder\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpwd.co.uk\/theslowboatbuilder\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpwd.co.uk\/theslowboatbuilder\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpwd.co.uk\/theslowboatbuilder\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/hpwd.co.uk\/theslowboatbuilder\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/hpwd.co.uk\/theslowboatbuilder\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpwd.co.uk\/theslowboatbuilder\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpwd.co.uk\/theslowboatbuilder\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpwd.co.uk\/theslowboatbuilder\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}