Sounds like your deckbeams are too high. Same thing happened to me. Sharpen up your plane or get our your random orbital sander and even things out a bit. The deck needs a good surface to glue to.

> Hi,

> I have just finished putting the deckbeams onto my Ches 17'. I was looking
> at it for a while and thinking about the sheer clamps. I glued them proud
> a 1/4" or whatever the plans show, but when I look at the deckbeams
> it really doesn't look like the clamps stick up enough to fully plane to
> the radius of the deck. I'm not sure if I'm being clear, but it looks
> like, when I plane, only the outer part of the sheer clamp will assume the
> radius of the deck, and the inner part will remain flat, as it is now,
> because it is not high enough. If I wanted the radius to be on the whole
> width of the sheer clamp, I think I will have to sand into the top of the
> side panels a little.

> Is this bad? Should I go into the side panels a little, or should I plane
> only the outer parts of the sheer clamps and end up with a narrow gluing
> surface?

> Thanks in advance

> Paul