Bateau Corsair 13 - Weekend 6 - April 8 and 9

We worked mostly on the daggerboard and rudder this weekend. Work went surprisingly fast since another brother in-law dropped by and helped out. Aside from the daggerboard and rudder, we were also able to do some work on the seats and deck.

After trying my hand at "sculpting" the daggerboard with an angle grinder, I decided to instead use the router. First I made the handle holes and used a large roundover bit to make nice rounded edges. Making the pofile was a bit more difficult. Of course I wanted to make a nice airfoil profile but later decided to use a simple varying straight line slope. This is the setup we used to create teh varying slopes:

The sled rested on two rails. One rail was temporary nailed along the line of the board which would be thickest which the other rail was nailed to the work surface running parallel to the sloped trailing edge of the board. Since the rails were not parallel the slope of the sled would vary lowest at the widest part of the board and steepest at the end of the board. After about 15 minutes of suffering all the sawdust the router made, we were very happy with the results:

This was all done on Saturday. By late afternoon of Sunday, we also assembled the daggerboard trunk, cutout the seat doors, attached glue cleats for the seat tops to the hull, shaped and epoxy coated the rubrail, and cutout and fit a new deck piece.