Planking persists, gets a bit more complicated

Planking the frames continues. I've fully taken the plunge and hope to have the hull frame planked by the end of the weekend: after all, I need to keep myself busy while my wife is out of town.

As you can see from the photo, the pieces toward the bow at times are getting carved narrower. There is more surface area amidships than at either the bow or the stern; to accommodate this, the planks sometimes narrow or won't even reach the bow and/or stern at all.

One challenge is to ensure that the planks that get cut short nevertheless terminate close to a frame. Take a gander at the second plank down in the picture at right -- it's the one that doesn't entirely extend to the bow. What you can't see in the picture is that, being so close to the bow, there's pretty serious hull curvature forward of where the last pin is. To deal with this, I applied a pretty generous serving of glue to keep that tapered end in place. Still wet from its pliance-restoring soak, the plank quickly adhered firmly. From there, I worked backward to secure the other pins. I need to be mindful of providing that last physical anchor -- the pin -- as close as possible to each plank's ends.