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Progress has been slow the last few days. Some of it has been the nature of the work. Cutting and sanding two shims and one garboard has required far more time than normal planks.
Some of it is psychology. If I were just a machine, I could probably go ahead and do whatever I needed to do. But as a man, I understand the nature of the undertaking and sometimes hesitate to begin it before I feel that I have a sufficiently good way forward.
That said, the shims went on perfectly and look beautiful. They successfully brought the stern in line. They also required an absurd amount of sanding.
The garboard on the other hand felt dicey. I ended up doing a patch job where it wasn't flush with the keel at the bow. After sanding and cutting, it looked fairly pristine.
I still need to make it fit the stern more perfectly, which I plan to fix using the other garboard, a lot of glue, and a lot of pressure.
That leaves me with the final problem... Five planks covering 20 mm to fit into 8 mm on the bow and 12 mm on the stern.
If I sand the current plank down to one mm, I will only have to do one more 1 mm plank on the bow, which I think I would much prefer.
It remains an open question whether the middle will be 20 mm exactly or 20 mm and a little gap for which I'll have to whittle a solution.
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