We hid the body yesterday, under plywood, once and for all. Plywood coordinates: fore and aft of the boat. This completes the strutural hull construction we started over two years ago. Yay! Now our tasklist is as follows: flip the boat, build the keel, glass the entire outside hull, take the boat out, fit the keel, rig the boat and paint it. That should be it. We’ll see how it goes. After a short debate we decided that it’d be best to purchase marine plywood for the keel, as it will have water flooded areas and needs to be durable at all cost. Without a keel the boat is pretty much doomed, at sea that is. The rigging process really is a puzzle for us. We know very little to nothing about rigging a boat. We think we have the pulpit and stanchion figured out, but the rest.. well. I guess some consulting is in order. Here we go:
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- We have no footage of covering up the fore. Here is Uku applying epoxy to the aft framing. A plate of plywood is in order. Pre glassed from underneath.
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- The plate of plywood, the aft deck, name it as you want, feels good and solid to sit on it. To the left you can see the companionway slides. The companionway is also finished. Some work left on the hatch itself.
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- A view from front. The decking process required excessive force at the very tip of the boat. 9 mm ply was hard to bend to such a radius. We had to use the ceiling as a support for a massive block of wood which we used as a lever. But it holds well, for now at least. Screws and epoxy work wonders.
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- A flashy shot of the inside. All is glassed, except for a few uncritical spots not seen on the picture. Once painted, it will not look that beat up from fillet stains.
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- It was a rare moment when we actually had very little left to do. So we simply spent 2 hours cleaning the shop. Now we have organized a team of friends to come help roll the boat over so we can start building and dry fitting the keel.
Oh, and here is a littel improvisation from our picture collection. The birth of a boatbuilder:
