Bottom planks fit
Over the last 2 weeks, I've been working on fitting the remaining planks on the bottom. I think I'm there but I've invited my friend and mentor, Al, to come inspect my work to be sure we're ready to proceed. Luckily, in this area I know several guys that will come help with the bottom. We call them the bottom gang and I don't want any surprises when we get the gang together. This shows fitting the chine plank where I was by myself: Here's where I'm at after fitting, the planks are intentionally left long and I'll trim them flush after the bottom is applied: Then I proceeded to make the butt blocks like the original was done by Chris Craft: . These will be installed on the inside of the boat before we apply 5200 and screw it all down