Planking

The planking is 8mm thick and varies on the width for some widths need to be changed pending on where it was placed. We wanted to get it as fair as possible without putting to much force on the plank. Because of the shape of the yacht, every plank needed to be planed to fit the last plank, keeping in mind of the next plank being fit. In some parts the planks needed to be riped into 3 parts a third of way, length ways down the plank. I found this very tricky at first but it has become a lot easier.

We first lay the plank down and bend it slightly to lay hard up against all station frames. Pending on how hard it was to bend the plank, was how we made a decision on how we  were gonna lay it. We would then mark where we were gonna cut it then ruffly cut it out leaving 5 to 10mm to spear then plane it down to fit.

then when fit we would nail it down to the frames then move on to the next until it was time to glue.