I started skinning the hull today. Lacing up all that cord sure is time consuming. I think it went well and I managed to pull out all the wrinkles below the chine and most of the ones above. There are some small ones near the gunwale but I don’t think they’ll spend much time in the water or affect the handling any.

I’ve glued the stern and will go back soon and glue up the bow. It’s amazing how strong the glued joint is after just 10 minutes. I ran a few tests with some scraps. After 5 minutes I could get the joint to slide but at 10 minutes it wasn’t budging without a fight.

I still need to finish the coaming and may start over because I’m not happy with how this one turned out.  I tried using some cheap 1/2″ ply and there were a lot of voids.  Maybe I’ll run by Lowes at lunch and see if they have any luan that I can laminate to make work.