Epoxy Pictures and Cutting for the Stems

I posted previously that I had glued the kayak together - shown below are the pictures:

Cross Section 1, shown from bow	Cross Section 3, shown from bow
Close Up / Cross Section 4, shown from bow	Close Up / Cross Section 4, shown from stern

I've started cutting the gunwales and stringers for the stems. This has turned out to be quite a bit more challenging than I originally expected. I did fine drawing a vertical cut line on the end of the gunwale, but I wasn't exactly sure how to precisely extend that back the gunwale to determine the cut. Looking from the bow, the cut for gunwale on the left came out fine; but, the gunwale on the girl wasn't angled quite right. I had to use my bonsai saw to clean up the cut, trimming the back edge a bit. In the end, it turned out fine - but, I wasn't prepared for the extra cut and was a bit frazzled with getting it right.

On top of getting the cuts wrong, I had added perpendicular deck supports between cross section 1 and the bow. In theory, I thought this was going to be helpful in case anything was on the deck of the kayak - it'd have a backing/something firm to rest on (rather than just unsupported skin). In reality, what it did was to prevent me from being able to squeeze the gunwales at the bow together. I had to cut second deck support after cutting just the first wasn't enough.

And finally, while drawing the cut lines for the stringers - I was pushing the gunwales out of the level's way and managed to break the epoxy joint for the 3rd deck support. These deck supports hadn't had the greatest epoxy jobs on them. I'm not terribly worried that this is any indication of my epoxy abilities - I knew these joints were "iffy", at best.

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