Work starts on the deck

The Moonfish is built upside down, using the deck as the reference.  I've now spliced together the 2 sheets of 6mm ply that make up the deck:

Before doing this, I dry-fitted and clamped the sheets together so that I could draw the grid and mark out the sheer lines.  This, in turn, allowed me to rough-cut to within about an inch of the lines - making the sheets much easier to move around in a confined space.

The sheets are spliced on one side only (upper as you look at it now, but will be the underside of the deck once complete) with 100mm woven tape & epoxy.  They are clamped between two boards wrapped (smoothly & tightly) with polythene, which hopefully should give a smooth finish requiring minimum sanding.  Poor man's peel ply !  The boards are the 2 sides of the daggerboard/mast trunk - perfect size for the job !