Hold onto your butts! Everyone's favorite Shipwright Louis Sauzedde is back in action on his TotalBoat Sport Dory. You remember Lou's nail trick to pattern the garboards and now it's time to fasten the first garboard into place on the port side. We'll be using TotalBoat 5:1 Epoxy Resin mixed with the slow hardener and the first step is to apply to glue along the plank where it will touch the bottom as well as along the bottom itself where it will touch the garboard plank. This is where all that packaging tape we carefully put on the mold comes into play because the last thing we want to do here when we fasten the two together is glue our bottom or garboard planks to the mold. Once we have enough glue on both surfaces we are going to put the plank in position and use screws and nails to hold it down tight against the bottom. We'll let the glue dry overnight and then remove all the fastenings so now only the Epoxy is holding the plank in place. The last steps are to cut off the excess on each end of the plank with a handsaw and then plane down the edge of the garboard that extends beyond the bottom of the boat. We now have our first garboard plank fully glued into position with no fastening whatsoever.
