The final step before glueing up the bottom of our TotalBoat Sport Dory is to create our two broadstrake planks on each side. This is the next plank up from the garboard, or next plank down as the boat is being built upside down. In order to make this plank we need to pattern the edge of the garboard plank above it and then take that pattern over to our stock material and transfer that edge. While the plank is on the bench Lou is also going to roughly plane down the next edge of the broadstrake just to take some material off and make the plank more pliable when bending it around the mold. Before we can bring the pieces back to the boat Lou is going to electric plane down a scarf on both ends where they meet in the middle. Once both of our broadstrake pieces are ready we are going to glue them together with TotalBoat 2:1 High Performance Epoxy, on the boat. This makes sure we get the angle or relativity between the two exactly right, something that would be extremely difficult to do on the bench. We now have both layers of bottom, both layers of garboard planks and both broadstrakes made and fit into position and we can begin glueing our bottom together.
