A 4 meter long piece of red cedar was ripped to get the rub rails on the table saw cutting at a 20 degree angle. I tried to be clever but in the end the two rub rails are not fully identical. When on the boat I don't think anyone will notice.
I did put the rails on the boat with screws to get a fit. After gluing I will replace the screw holes with bungs.
It looks quite smart with the rub rails on. Ripping the rub rails left me with a narrow piece of long cedar so I ripped that in two pieces to be used as sheer strake moldings.
I don't know yet how to get them on the boat. Arch Davis uses nails but I am afraid the red cedar will split. Food for thought.
As cleaning the hull is not very inspiring work I looked for a more interesting job and after studying the drawings decided to start with the daggerboard trunk. First converting the dimensions from Imperial to Metric. I use a very good website http://www.lenntech.nl/calculatoren/lengte/lengte.htm from a Dutch engineering firm for the conversion.
Enough work to do.
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