A Bit of Fancy Stuff

I decided that I wanted a bit of fancy work in my deck. The book that I am working out of suggest that you can just sit the deck on top of the gunwales but I had seen someone on the internet make a flush fit deck and I thought that would be good. I also wanted to put a feature strip of wood in the deck as well. Sounds easy but I spent a lot of time trying to work out how I was going to achieve this. The main deck piece would need to be cut half and strengthened up the middle so it did not collapse if someone sat on it. I would also need to cut away a piece of the inwale and the hull to make the deck fit flush. I forgot to take any photos of this process but you should get some idea of how it was done as you look at the following posts.