Today was essentially worthless.  Due to circumstances beyond my control, I got a late start in the shop, and then was distracted for much of the afternoon by the canvas work going on in the next bay, which probably required less of my attention than I gave it, but nonetheless managed to draw me away consistently enough that eventually I decided it was futile to maintain pretense.

In the time I did manage, however, I concentrated on the next portion of the settee sides.  To continue, I first needed to establish a centerline inside the boat, which, after a false start or two, I determined simply using the small forward bulkhead and settee sides as guides.  Then, using the second mast step block as a guide, I determined where the ultimate forward end of the berth cutout would be, just aft of the mast, and from there determined its width and then the angle required between the existing settees and the forward end.  Confused?  It will all become clear eventually.

With this information at hand, I conceived and milled a trim piece to conjoin the two sections of plywood together at the angled joint.  From a piece of solid cherry, I laid out the cuts required--5 in all--and milled two rabbets in the piece to accept the plywood ends:  an angled rabbet forward, for the angled piece, and a straight rabbet aft, for the existing piece. 

Here it is, the deceptively simple fruit of my labors.

Total Time on This Job Today:  1.75 hours

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