Today at uni i was takeing out the Gusset on St.2 an St.13, the reson for this was because we found out that the stations were 1-2mm off on the Port side of the boat. In order to move the station we had to make new Gussets for both St and replace them with new 1s and re-drill.

Takeing out the Gusset on St.13 was easy because it had more area you can work around while in St.2 i had to care for the other stations and the planking that was glued into place. In order to take out the gusset on St.2 i used Weges and drove them into the end of the gusset to push out the Glued zones on PVA.

After i finished with the gussets we went on to takeing off the Chine planks from each side and ripping them onto 3 peaces ( but not fully ripping the whole plank ) we ripped each peace on 17mm and 1.5m from the Ap and the other rip was 2m from the Ap. After the ripping was done we made the apoxy and started to glue up the rippings.
The reason why we ripped the planks up was because it gives u much more bend into the female boat and also it becomes much more stonger incase the plank tryed to come apart.

I also asked Chris today on why is Female boat easyer to make than Male. One of the reason he gave me was because Female boat all ur planking will be pulled towards the group because of Gravery while on Male you have to work upside down an also in order to keep ur planks in the corret place you will need alot of nails to hold them into place.

                            Photos For The Last Days Inside The Workshop.