Good article, Jake. I am surprised that in the beam seating process, you never checked for hull alignment before letting the slurry cure. In talking to Pete Melvin, he told me that he prepared the slurry for all four pockets, similar to your process, but put both front and rear beams in place, checked that the measurement from port bow to starbord stearn was the same as starboard bow to port stearn. This is when he tightened it all down at all beam bolts, then checked again to make sure nothing moved. He let it cure in a perfectly aligned position.
By doing the process for the front beam at a different time than the rear beam and with all the slurry it took to take up the imperfections of the beam seats, I would be concerned that you might have cured your new beam seats with the alignment less than perfect. Just a thought.
It's buried in the site, but we did check hull alignment. It was very very close with no pressure on it and we measured more of a difference in the length of the hulls than in the crossing measurement. With the 4 degrees or so of cant in the I20 hulls, measuring toe-in (equalizing the measurement from center line of bow to bow and center line of stern to stern) is damn near impossible since nothing is really in a straight line. We checked the cross measurement again after snugging up the beams with the slow cure epoxy and again it was right on...I should have gone into more detail about that.
Shouldn't you be on your way to Spring Fever!?
