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Hi,
I was getting ready to glue my sheer clamps to my Chesapeake 16LT when I noticed that they are not straight. You can see in the picture below that they curve right after the scarf joint. Is this going to be a problem? I am worried that the side panels of the hull are going to conform to the curve in the sheer clamp.
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RE: Sheer Clamps
» Submitted by PAG - Sat, 4/18/09 » 8:32 PM
Hector,
I ran into the same situation on my Shearwater hybrid. One of the pieces of sheer clamp material had quite a twist. Not the best material I would have hoped for, but I decided to live with it. It took a bit of clamping force to get it lined up but it did not distort the plywood as far as I could tell. Those panels are all wired up, epoxied and glassed now with no ill effects. I have installed the deck forms and all is nicely fair and ready for stripping the deck. So clamp those puppies up and forge ahead.
Paul