I haven't been feeling too good lately so I thought that for something non exertive I would take a look at the hull and how it had been built,
this is just going to be an out of the box build, no frills, with maybe just a couple of modifications along the way,
This is the hull as the previous owner had built it,
on closer inspection several of the bulkheads were not seated properly on the central keel, you can see where the XXX are,
also the deck sheeting panels were loose, and you can see in the above pic that there are only a few nails holding them,
also the glue he had used was like a rubber cement, see in the above pic,
so i decided it had all to come apart and I would start from the begining, this is where the rubber cement worked
in my favour, and the decks just lifted off and the cement was easily cut with a sharp craft knife, thats the top deck
taken off with no breakages,
all the gun port supports removed,
once I had removed the lower deck there was another shock awaiting me, a lot of the side framing parts had not
even been glued in place they were just sitting in place and the bulkheads themselves were not glued, they had
just been slid down over the central keel,
all the bulkheads just lifted up off the central keel,
it was the same at the stern, all the parts just pulled out,
in the end everything came apart cleanly, the only parts that were solidly glued were central keel reinforcing plates
and the bow section, so he must have used PVA glue on them,
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