Bottom Paint

After filling all the holes with epoxy and adding extra fiberglass with lots of sanding; the bottom is now painted. All except the sheer strake, thats the top most plank for you landlubbers! Also the keel has been added. So now it is time to flip back over. There is probably another week or so of work left. I am going to be away for a few weeks, getting married and travelling! So no updates till mid August.

Upside Down

It took three of us to make the flip. I had cut the planks over wide just to make sure and now needed to trim them down. I didn't want to take forever planning these edges, so I decided to borrow a hand saw and set the depth to just cut through the 4mm ply. Kinda scary holding a power handsaw up to the almost finished hull of your boat. After taking a few breaths and squeezing the trigger I had nicely and quickly trimmed the planks down. Then I went to work doing the outer fillets where each plank overlaps. This really cleans up the look of the hull. Next I'll go over and fill all the screw holes with thickened epoxy.

Decking on

The decking was fairly straight forward, put plywood on, crawl inside the boat and trace out on the underside of the plywood then Cut and glue. I will trim and paint the decking once the boat has been flipped back over, since it would probably get scratched while flipped over. So that being said it is now time to turn her over and work on getting the outside finished.