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KBBS Archive 20,000
Adventures in Scarfing: Hull panel mis-alignment
Posted By: Will
Date: Friday, 21 January 2000, at 12:43 p.m.
I have a stitch and glue question regarding my CLC West River162 .
I just glued up my scarfed hull panels and I have some misalignment problems. The instructions emphasize that each pair of hull panels must be mirror images of each other, or the hull will be asymmetrical. I am having two difficulties in this regard:
1) The pre-cut panel sections were not identical to begin with ( slightly warped, slightly different widths at scarf joints, slightly different lengths). I estimate warping variances on my hull sections up to a 4mm deviation from each other along the length of their curve. This compounds when the sections are joined to full panel length. This the worst case, not all of them are this bad.
2) My own error. Some slippage occurred during the clamp-up of the panel sections and some of my joints are offset (one section slid up 1/16" relative to the other).
I realize that I will have to reshape the panels with the resulting panels being a slightly different shape and smaller than the originals.
How can I fix them? Can this reshaping be done while preserving the general proportions of the boat?
Thanks for your help. -Will
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