Getting there. I spent about an hour hanging four LED shop lights and another half hour to excavate the kit from beneath a decade’s neglect. I found the third table, moved a ton of mostly RV leftovers, did a half-assed job of vacuuming wood- and aluminum shards. Then I pulled twenty feet from a tape measure. Jesus! Twenty feet is a long boat!

I spent way too much time sweating exactly how I wanted to arrange the lights, then finally realized that it’s just a matter of placing a few hooks in the exposed rafters. It doesn’t matter. Moving them around to redistribute the light (if and when needed) is a five minute job. After that it was … a five minute job. All in all, the cleanup is going much faster than expected.

Next: hang new, continuous plastic between the boat benches and the space to the left in the March 19 photo. Reuse the smaller plastic sheets hanging there now to cover tools and stuff to the right. Also, it will eventually be needed to keep epoxy from bonding to things that ought not be glued together for the ages. The new curtain will be barrier to contain dust going both ways, improve lighting, and reduce distractions. I’ll use magnets to attach the curtain to the steel beam at upper left. Also, organize, tape down, and protect the power cords snaking across the floor. Sweep up. Then set up the third table. All the tables need to come to the right, directly beneath the work lights. There are old boxes of packing material to deal with. A concern comes into view: study the kind and duration of supports needed to control “winding” as the hull comes together.