After a busy month or so I finally got back to work. I've been dreading the keel shaping because there is a lot of material to remove. Yesterday I just jumped in and experimented.
The process I finally settled on was to use a planner set to remove 1/32 and roughed it in going lengthwise. once that was reasonably close I switched to going diagonally removing 1/64 per pass. With practice I could get pretty good results.
After three hours and ~20 gallons of shavings I switched to a belt sander with 6o grit. Another hour and a half and I had the port side roughed to within about 1/16 inch of the final shape and more uniform than I thought it would be.
My plan is to flip the keel and rough in the starboard side before trying to get any closer to the final shape.
I figure another 4-5 hours to rough the rest of the shape and that much again to get it to the final shape for glassing.
I want to have the keel complete before stitching the hull so I have a better idea of the final keel box dimensions.
Oh yeah, the CST bowsprit arrive a couple of weeks ago! Beautiful piece of work! Can't wait to have a boat to put it in! The thinking with ordering early was to have it in hand as the hull is being formed and as additional motivation!
It was too dusty to expose (no pun intended) the camera but I'll take and post photos later this week.
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