And, once again, I'm on hold. I had planned on working on the Elam when I got to work today, didn't happen. The plan was to epoxy on the glue blocks I had cut yesterday, along with a few more that I was going to cut today. That got put on hold real quick when I started looking at where the lower nontrip glue blocks would be located on the sponson transoms. My glue blocks are .25" triangle stock, cut by the manufacturer at 90 degrees on one corner with the other two at 45s. The issue is that, something I hadn't noticed previously, the layout lines I drew when I made the transoms are drawn at 38 degrees, as shown on the plans. That means I need to stop at the Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum on my way to work tomorrow and check the angle on the full sized boat. Since my glue blocks are almost 10 degrees different than the angle drawn on the transom, I will need to adjust one side of the glue blocks that are attached at the bottom of the sponson insides so that the glue blocks will all line up properly. This will also make it so the nontrip lower skins will fit correctly instead of having gaps between the blocks and skins.
While I'm taking measurements, I probably should also check the angle of the inner sponson bottom panel so I can get the sponson frames all sanded to the correct angles so they will be ready to epoxy the skin panels to