I carved the seat and back rest today, also glued the backrest to the back bulkhead and am pretty happy with how it came out. See picture below. Also in the works today was final shaping of the front hatch flange and epoxying it into place. You can click through on the [...]

I mixed up a batch of epoxy, cabosil and wood flour and put the resulting paste on all the edges that meet. Not too bad of an experience except for the mosquitoes biting. Sure is a distraction. But, swatting and epoxying, and strapping the boat together with bungees didn’t go too bad. [...]

I got the coaming epoxied to the riser, sanded, and sealed.  Ready for glass which should happen tomorrow.  Also on the completed list is the hatch flange built, but needs sanding and a bit of filling in of some voids prior to installing in the hatch hole.  I built the hatch small since this will [...]

Coaming needs to be shaped yet, but all the gluing is done. I cut out the hatch this afternoon and flipped the deck over to get ready to build up the hatch lip. Here’s the progress picture for the day, click on it for more..
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I started on the coaming today, so far have 6 strips in the glue-up. They are slightly less than 1/8 inch, so I will be putting 1 more on to get to the 3/4 inch mark I’m shooting for. The center strip is redwood for a nice contrast to the white pine. [...]

After the last post, I epoxied the rear bulkhead-hatch frame in place. This morning, I mixed up the epoxy and added Cab-o-sil to thicken it a bit. If ya work with this stuff, be sure to wear a respirator, that silca can lead to silicosis even tho the MSDS sheet doesn’t consider it [...]

Today I put the rear hatch frame/bulkhead together and got it seal coated with epoxy. Also sealed the shear clamps. I will epoxy these to the sides of the hull before putting the deck on. If I were to do this over, I’d mount them to the deck as I stripped it [...]

Got the inside of the hull glassed today, first I put a carbon area in the floor and sides of the cockpit then glassed in front of that then behind it. After everything set up and I trimmed the edges, I put the deck on top to see how things were going to look. [...]

After the glass was put on the hull, (last post) I applied a carbon fiber band around the cockpit on the inside of the deck for a tad more strength. Today I finished glassing the inside of the deck, then sanded and seal coated the inside of the hull.  I will be applying the glass [...]

Got a break from all the extra stuff I got going on, so sanded the hull, put the stems on and seal coated it.  Next I applied the dookie smutz to fill the knots and a few cracks.  While that was setting up, I sanded the inside of the deck and applied a seal coat [...]