Boatbuilder

Sanded down by hand the mahogany trim piece to get the glue off. Put a second coat of epoxy on the entire hatch cover and had lots left over so put coats on the cabin top and seatbacks where they were sanded.

Slowly getting back into it as my back heals. Just doing easy jobs. Did the last fiberglassing of the back outside wall of cabin and the last on the rudder. I also glued down the mahogany trim piece on the sliding hatch cover. Went and got the 4 pieces of rough 1" x 4" x 16 ft for the mast. Got this from Ridge Cedar in Keswick Ridge. He only charged me 34.00 even though he milled them out of a 2 x 6 x 16 piece and two pieces of them had cracks that made them no good for a mast so he replaced them with two more. Great service.

Saturday, Feb 4th, I went out to Francis Levangie's and we used his big table saw to rip two lengths of mahagony 3/4" x 1 1/4" x 9' to be scarfed for the first length of rubrail for the starboard side. Notice the two pieces are already curved some. I chose a piece of board that was warped or curved already. When it was ripped on the table saw it seemed to curve more. This should help with the bending to the curve of the boat.  I also got a loan of his oscillating jig saw that cuts my mahagony well so I could cut the curves out for the trim pieces for the companionway hood and also for the hatch cover. Using a block plane to get these two pieces angles as the picture shows. Now I have thrown out my back and am taking some days off!!

Last week, Feb 2 and 3rd, I removed the screws and trimmed the starboard side toe rail. I also glued down the port side toe rail.

Friday evening, Feb 3, I glassed the companionway hatch cover. Also did 2 hours of sanding the cockpit area glass that is already laid to get ready to lay the last piece which is in the cockpit footwell. Also have to lay two pieces on the outside wall of the back bulkhead of the cabin. Then all the fiberglassing of topsides is done. It will be hours then of sanding and recoating with epoxy to get a good even dull gray sanded finish ready for painting.