Meet Asym!
Why Asym?
Well it's not Symetrical, the nesting bulkhead is slightly rotated and the sunnier side warped as the epoxy set, so the transom is about 8mm higher on one side.
The extra plywood squares on the transom are backing plates for Razza folding wheels. I am beefing up the transom to hull join to deal with the potential stress with thick fillets and taping twice with 400gr/m biaxial tape.
I clamped one layer of the gunnels to the sides when I glassed the interior. I glassed up to the clamps and have since put a layer of 400gr/m bi-axial tape inside and outside along the top edge.
Next step is to fit the aft seats to form the shape of the sides and flatten a warp on the port bottom. Then glue the gunnels on (in 3 layers), trim the sides to the gunnels and fill the core along the top edges, before attaching the foredeck. That will complete the interior with the exception of the center board trunk. I am looking forward to seeing the bottom which I expect to take a lot less time to reach the fairing point.
At this stage my plan after shaping and taping the joins is to lay lite cloth first as it can be tricky to get the hexacore to wet out and then apply a single layer of 200 gr/m basalt cloth. There are a couple of dents around the forward bulkheads I will patch these with 300gr/m cloth and then fill and fair out before the layer of lite cloth
The aft was extended 6cm because I placed the nesting bulkhead too far aft by 1cm, meaning it was not going to nest. I choose to extend by 6cm because that was the bite length of my clamps. I felt adding only 2cm would be more difficult. I actually doubt it will nest or nest completely because of the slight twist in the bulkhead. oh well it's a 8SNe semi nesting extended.
I must admit that this project was rather ambitious for my skill level. This is my first stitch and glue and my fibre glass experience prior was limited to a composite mast step for my plastic sailing kayak. In getting this far I have probably done more 'carpentry' than I have done in the last 20 years.
I definitely underestimated the amount of work involved especially on how much more work going composite would add.
Despite the beefier transom and my beginners tendency to over engineer, the hull feels very lite.