Nautical Research Journal 27


19. Decking. T e pear king plank and cedar deck planks are glued in place.


(from a lumberyard fence picket) for the fi eld and pearwood for a king plank and covering boards. T e cedar looks much like spruce and the pear mimics mahogany, both of which were commonly used in boats like this. (Figure 19)


I typically bond everything with thin cyanoacrylate glue (CA) and the little tools in Figure 20 make this a lot easier. A set of sewing needles with the tops of their eyes cut off , embedded in dowels or scrapped out paint brush handles, will pick up measured amounts of CA (if dipped into a small puddle) and deposit it into a joint. T ose small gray plastic tops from 35-millimeter fi lm containers, or similar small fl exible plastic lids, make good palettes for small amounts of CA. I hold them in a drilled hole in a


block of wood with a slightly angled bottom. When the CA has hardened, fl ex the plastic lid and the CA will pop out.


I painted one edge of my cedar deck planks black and bonded them in place by tacking them down about every inch or so with my little CA needles, fl owing more CA into the joint when I was satisfi ed that everything was tight. T ese small tack bonds usually can be broken, if necessary, without damage to the parts and then the parts can be repositioned. At this point I also drilled out the cockpit opening, with a Foerstner bit. It was oval, so I drilled a pair of overlapping holes and chiseled out the waste on the sides. (Figure 21) T e opening was sized to fi t a fi nished cockpit that would be inserted later. At the


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