The boat (still unfinished) is for sale.

I’m trying to think of what was done when and found myself having to read the blog post to remind me where we left off. There has been minimum progress but I have no idea of the time so I think I’ll just ballpark that and we’ll call it up to date.

All the deck and cockpit floor was installed and filleted in place when we last left but no picture was added at the time so this is the first pic posted of the completed hull.

 I have a few pictures of on hand of the cabin or coach roof construction to show.  It was a simple process using cedar strips approximately ¾” x ¼”. I used a few wider strips to start the center but if I were to do it again I would opt for the same size strips all the way. I used a staggered pattern as you can see in the photo and it made laying them in easy enough. They are glued with standard wood glue to help speed laying it up. This is an acceptable practice as the whole thing then gets sandwiched between two layers of epoxy and 4oz.  biaxial cloth. The sanding prior to laying the cloth was done with an orbital sander on the inside and an orbital and long board sander on the outside. Don’t be afraid to use some 40 grit here as you are shaping the cedar to fair it and it gets the epoxy glass covers.

Just typing a few lines reenergizes my desire to get things back on track but we’ll see.  Just getting an hours work on it seems overwhelming right now.

I’ll leave her up for sale in the meantime and see how it goes.

Time this segment:
We won't count moving across half the country and the time it sat on the trailer in the garage!
Glue up all the deck panels 6 hours
Fillets on all deck panels 3 hours
Laying Cedar Strips 6 hours
Sanding/Fairing inside and  outside 6 hours
Glass inside cabin roof 1 hour or less
Total this segment 22 hours
Total Project: 167 hours