In this episode it's time to laminate our cutwater. This piece will run from the very top of the bow down the front of the boat and connect with that scarf we made in the keel. We're using thin white oak laminates and we're going to glue them together with TotalBoat 2:1 High Performance Epoxy with the medium hardener. The first step is brush each laminate with a batch of thinned epoxy so that it can really soak into and saturate the wood. Then we're going to mix up a batch of thickened epoxy and apply that to each piece as we re-stack them up in reverse. We'll then coordinate each laminate and carry them over to the boat and apply them in position using jacks and a series of props so that we can temporarily fasten the cutwater in place until the epoxy dries and then remove them and replace them with bronze screws later.
