We began the day fitting the centre (engine room) longitudinals.
As the hull was being formed we did notice a kink in the joint of the front and back plates.
But as the bow wasn't formed it is hard to know where the hull is going to lie for you.
Kinked bit in-line with vice grips
Laying down a sample piece it looked like the port side was bent at the joint and would never fit..
Edgar was called and he approved of what we proposed to do about it.
Joint separated, the floor lined up better.
We had too much metal on one of the bigger rear sheets.
We cut the Tacks and released the sheet and removed 3 mm of metal.
The end result meant that the hull is fair on both sides and the longitudinals are a perfect fit.
Rain stopped play, and as we cleared up lost power for 5 hours.
Major outage in the area.
No! it wasn't us with the welder!
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