Compass Project Week 6: Work on the Morbic 12 continues...

Lots of projects, some new and some ongoing, awaited us in the workshop this week.  Although we made a lot of progress on the beveled edges of the bulkhead and transom last week, because of it's complexity, a lot of work still remained on the stem.  There was still work on the girder that needed to be completed and several CNC parts needed to be fully separated and sanded before they could be attached.  In addition, Shane needed "board stretchers" and a false stem stock crew - so much to do in only about an hour and a half each week!  The crew divided the tasks out and got to work...

First up was our false stem stock crew.  See that curved wooden "trim" piece at the very front of the boat?  Well, that's the false stem....

 We had a great crew working on this detailed project.  Shane, Elena, Mrs. Brewer and our honorary team member, Will (Mrs. Horton's nine year old son), worked out some complicated metric system conversions...

 After a lesson in safety and instructions on how to use the table saw, Elena made some cuts and the false stem began to take shape!

 Undaunted, Marissa continued to work on the beveled edges of the stem...

 Molly looked to Allen for guidance on how to separate those pesky CNC cutouts...

and won the battle as she wielded a sanding block to finish the job!

James and Allen prepared to attach the bulkhead to the girder...

So all of us were wondering what exactly the role of a "board stretcher" would be.  Wendy worked with Andy and Socheta to separate the CNC cut strakes or planks that would then be laminated or joined together at their stepped finger scarf joints...wow!  These long or "stretched" planks would then be used on the side of our boat.

Strakes with stepped finger scarfs...

Andy breaks the number one safety rule (notice the glasses lying on the wood), but does a great job as a board stretcher!

 

Socheta works hard to separate the planks...

Thanks again to the Compass Project crew for another great week in the workshop!