Planing Bearers for the Beam Throughs

Well, have you missed sanding? I bet you have!
So we are back to sanding and planing and sanding and cutting…
In short, before I put my bulkheads up I need to get beam through bearers attached to most of them. Well, that is yet another reason they are main ones- all of them are placed under the beams. Even number 5 - one half doesn’t support the beam but the other side (internal) has actually been doubled to mast beam knee. But that one doesn’t really matter today as it has a very short beam through- just kind of a socket really for the mast beam, which doesn’t go all width of the hull.
Other beams go all the way and that means that the floor of the beam through has to be at slight angle to allow draining the water. And of course each of these bulkheads is different in size from another so I have three sets of four bearers to plane - they are on both bulkhead and the other side of the through supporting the floor and in fact spreading all the forces from the beam over the boat’s construction. It is only 12mm difference from the middle of the bearer to its end but should provide enough slope for water to make its way out. That is at least the general idea :)

So I’m busy creating tons of wood chips - it is amazing how much of it comes from relatively small pieces (largest is just over 1.5 meter long). And the rest of 45x32 mm Douglas fir is going back to storage as the next stage I’ll need it will be while building the deck pod!
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