Scarfing the Bottom & Gluing

On the 26th October, I was scarfing the Bottom Part of the boat.
Scarfing is easy once you get used to it, but i run into few problems while i was scarfing.
Problem No.1: I didn't clamp the wood properly on the table from all sides, the Solution to that was, I asked the other teams if they can describe to me about the clamping and how they did it.

Problem No.2: The plane wasn't sharp so it didn't cut properly, Solution: make the plane Sharpe.

Once the bottom peaces have been scarfed it was time to get it glued. The proses for the glue to set it takes 1 whole day. When i was gluing  i found out that i didn't use the proper wood to press pressure with. i used MDF. The MDF its a soft timber which will absorb the pressure im putting on,Also that i didn't leave any space to see the joint gluing   which made it hard to tell if the joint is in the correct place. The Solution to these problems were: I asked other teams about what wood to use and they told me ( pine wood ) which is much stronger then MDF. And to also to leave little bit of space where the joint is gluing so we can see if the joint is in the proper place.