Playing catch-up

Categories: Floats
Whew… I think things at work have finally dropped back off to normal – I actually had this past weekend off (except a few phone-calls), something that hasn’t happened in almost 2 months… hopefully now I can get back into the business of boat-building since dad’s been able to pick up some of my slack on this last float. Not too much to report other than a bow-cap that is shaped and glassed

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Deck bonded to port float

Categories: Decks Floats
Shaped the keel this weekend and started filling screw holes and joins on the outside of the floats. Also bonded the deck to the port float and screwed down into place. 1873 Most of the screw holes from the deck bonding are filled and sanded down. Still need to rough-fair the exterior of the deck and float sides, radius the deck-edge join and glue/shape the bow cap before external laminating.

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Milestone! Starboard float in storage!

Categories: Floats
Have not had a chance to update in a while — been super busy, and not much time left for boat-work either. Fortunately, there wasn’t too much that was going to get done on the starboard float before going into storage… I’ll spare the boring pictures and put the semi-boring pictures up… 🙂 Loaded up and ready to head out – 1807 Tried to get a shot straight-on, but the camera wouldn’t go wide enough

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