Here's how the cockpit frames were built, designated A and B in the plans, A supporting the cockpit, B terminating it with the companionway. It was already November or December, so it was starting to get a bit cold. Frames were assembled with the gussets on one side in the workshop, cured overnight (in a "heatbox", more on that in a different post), then post cured at home. The other side of the frames (gussets and/or bulkheads) were glued at home from elements prepared in the cold workshop. No cutting and sanding at home!
Let's start with B. The top is curved, cut from a single board that happened to be the correct shape. Frame B is tilted by 60deg so the sides need to be curved to comply with the shape of the hull, the height of the arc is just about 3mm, so not very well visible in the pictures.
After the initial glue-up of the frames and gussets it needs to post-cure at home under guard:
Frame A, directly under the cockpit.
The space behind the couch looked like this all winter, making the home smell of freshly cut spruce...
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