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Question about planing MC 16.5 sheer
I flipped my boat upright today for planing the sheer. The foredeck from the forward bulkhead forward was easy. I used a $20 Buck Bros plane from HD. I bought an inexpensive sharpener with coarse and fine sides. I set the blade to a very shallow cut and it worked with very little effort.
My question is about the aft area. The MC 16.5 comes with two planing guides that I assume need to be connected together so they will reach across the boat. I can't find anything that tells me where to clamp them together. Can someone shed some light on that one? I think I simply make sure the arc along the bottom edge is lined up and just use a couple clamps to hole it all together. Like this?
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RE: Question about planing MC 16.5 sheer
Well my impatience said to go for it and that's just what I did. It took less than an hour and my results look pretty good as long as I used the 30" radius guide properly.
The sharpened blade made this easy. This is what fell into the stern. There is a lot more on the floor:
RE: Question about planing MC 16.5 sheer
» Submitted by jeffh - Sun, 5/2/10 » 2:01 PM
As you can see, I did not use MAS epoxy for the fillets. I used West System Six-10 epoxy. This is the stuff that comes in a tube like caulk. Put it in a caulk gun and go. I still taped and used a rounded filleting tool to finish the job. It was easy and neat. Everything else is MAS Epoxy. Since this is my first boat, I don't really know what blush is, but I assume my fillets are a great example of blush. This area will be painted.