Decks

Decks laminated on.  Note the floor sole planks drying out.  They were
very sap-full when they arrived, fresh-cut Douglas Fir from Canada.

We laminated the decks onto the sheer yesterday afternoon.  They're made of leftover "Tie Mu", lit. "iron wood",  which I find on Google is "Chinese Hemlock".  It's a nice softwood, quite light, apparently used for boatbuilding in China.  Though it does tend to absorb a lot of epoxy...

Next job is to scarf 3/8" plywood for the Coaming, and fit it. Dave on his blog says it's the most difficult part of the build, so have to be on full alert... Dave tried the by-the-book install of mahogany, but found it split, and so changed to marine ply which worked well, so I'm going for that at the outset. We've done the pattern of 1/4" non-marine ply and fitted it, so now just to transfer the pattern to the 3/8" marine ply.

BTW, the floor sole planks that were really fresh-wet when they arrived are drying out nicely.  I thought they'd take weeks to dry out, but they seem to be losing up to 10% of their weight per day, so getting quickly to their dried weight.  They're sitting there, above, on the bow, enjoying this late winter sun of Hong Kong.