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I’m alive and well. Lori didn’t kill me for using her mixer. That’s a $1 yard sale mixer she picked up a few years ago. We’ve burnt out a couple of them so far mixing glue.Been down for the count for the better part of 3 days with an ear infection. Rig…

Haven’t been totally slacking off. The weather’s changed and it’s very nice for working in the boat shed. This morning it was a lil’ chilly at 12 C but warmed up nicely by noon to a comfortable 16C.Got to work with some sanding and then time to mix goo…

Took most of the day off yesterday to recover from a beer binge on Friday night at our HS reunion. I don’t normally drink a lot of beer. Three big jugs of it and I was a lil’ tipsy! Woke up Saturday morning about 2 AM with a horrible pain in my right e…

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I couldn’t wait. Just had to haul the stringers up and into the boat to see what they look like. Here’s one going up on the electric winch.

First one, port side getting loaded into the boat

Technically they’re now ‘in the boat’

Still have a lot of work to do on them before I start bedding, filleting & tabbing them in.

Stringers roughly centered looking aft

Stringers looking forward

Yesterday was a repeat of the day before. I laid some tape along the bottom/keel join as extra precaution. I also had to lay in some glass at the very back of the box keel. Unfortunately I couldn’t stay with the boat on bubble watch and sure as shit I got two bubbles. I’ll be in there tomorrow with the grinder to get them out and patch them up. *sigh*

This was about as far as I thought I’d get this season. I’m happy with the progress even though it’s dreadfully slow by most standards. I’ve got about 4 gallons of epoxy left and that should be enough to get the stringers bedded & filleted and maybe taped. I don’t know.

Standby…..

Yesterday I tinkered with the stringers. Radius’d the edges that’ll have glass draped over them and sanded the rest.Router makes quick work!Yes the router makes quick work but it also makes a big mess!Harumph!So I got that nastiness out of the way and …

So I reluctantly hauled my butt out to the shed this morning to see the results of yesterday’s glassing fiasco.Peel Ply removed.Didn’t turn out too bad. There’s a few spots that look dry but they’re not. I’m guessing there’s a sizing on the fabric or s…

The beotch fought me every step of the way today.The task was to epoxy the 12 oz on the transom then layer on the finishing fabric (12 oz plain weave). The 12 oz is bad enough to use with cut ends fraying etc. but it wets out nicely. That went Ok. Then…

Took a day off to rest up my hands and get away from the cats & boat for awhile. The Admiral and I took our final car club cruise last night which was fun!Taking a day off to rest the hands seems to be the ticket to getting stuff done. Gives me tim…

Spent the last two days (half day each) doing my favorite thing, sanding fiberglass! 😉 Yesterday I got a start on the transom and back end of the keel.Prepping the transom for glassIt’s readyThat took me till ’bout noon and I went inside to see what …

Kind of a lazy start this morning. Didn’t make it to the shed till after 09:00 and then did a wee bit of pondering. Wasn’t exactly sure I would have enough of the 12 oz fiberglass to do the side.Just ’nuff! Whew!Made it! With about 5′ left on the roll …