Shoulda warmed up the tubes

So I got done with what I "had" to do at work early today.  Sun was out, day unusually warm for January in NW Oregon.  Stopped by Winks hardware ( One of those good old fashioned hardware stores.  You take a number like at the DMV, tell the counter person what you need, and they fly into the racks and bring back exactly what you need, almost every time), bought a pound of bronze 1-1/4" ring shanked nails, and ran home to butt my panels together.

I'm using some nice 5 ply 7/8" plywood I had laying around the shop for the butt blocks.  I cut them to length, beveled the exposed corners fore and aft.  I marked a centerline and the 4" intervals, and started the ring nails in the blocks roughly center between the butt and the edge on each side off the butt.

Broke out a tube of PL premium, stuffed it in the gun and buttered the edge of the boat side in the butt.  spread it with a putty knife, then butted them up and lined them up.  Walked over to the first butt block, and started laying down glue.  Gun started "stripping gears" 6" into the first bead.  Several"expletives deleted", grabbed the hack saw, cut off the end and started bobbing it out with a putty knife.  got the first one buttered, took it over and carefully lined it up and hammered all of the nails home.  got about 1/4 of the way buttering the second one, hacksawed another tube to finish and nailed down the second butt.

I had @ 2/3 of the second tube left, so I took a vinyl glove and sucked it over the end.  If it doesn't work, I'm only out @ $3.00.  general cleaned up a bit and gave the glue some some to squeeze out of the joints.  ran down the edges to get most of the excess, waged my hands and shut the shop down.  I'll got out tomorrow night and stand the halves up, check out the back side of the joints and butt the two sides together to see how well i kept my alignment.

In the picture below, you'll see I ran a continuous strap from the interior framing of the cabin top right flue to the bottom.  According to the plans the chine log and sheer stringer are interior, and I should have notched for those.  I made the executive decision to move them to the outside of the boat (Like a proper Michalak design) and make my life much easier. This also means they'll "sandwich" the butt with the block from bottom to sheer.

2 lessons learned.

1)  keep your tubes warm.

2) don't buy cheap calking guns.