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20. Tools for applying cyanoacrylate glue.


same time, I turned over the hull and drilled two sets of holes in its bottom, a pair for the mounting pins, off set from the centerboard slot, and another pair (one on each side of the slot) for a couple of drain plugs.


I then started to deal with the covering boards. I had leſt the cedar planking slightly oversize at the edges and needed to trim those edges to nice, smooth curves of the right width. T e simple solution was to trace the outside edge of the deck onto a length of thin scrap


wood and cut it to shape, making a template that I attached to the deck with double-stick tape. (Figure 22) Running a new, sharp X-Acto blade next to the template cut off the excess. T e pear covering boards had to be bent, which I did by soaking them in hot water for about ten minutes and carefully bending them around the same template. (Figure 23) T ere was a little spring back, but they easily conformed to the edges of the cedar deck planks, where I bonded them down with CA. (Figure 24) T inking ahead, the outside edges of the covering boards, which would be leſt natural, would be right next to the painted hull. Masking such very thin items is hard, and it is


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