Old Man Takes Up Rowing

While waiting for the internal glasswork to cure, I measured and marked the position of the front deck beam and sanded its top surface flat. I cut it to length and then trimmed the bevels on both ends (twice, alas, so it now fits about one inch forward of its designed station). There will be…

Overthinking is the order of the day. How about putting together a “long board.” That’s a reasonably rigid sanding pad 16-20 inches long and a few inches wide with a couple of handles on top. One might do wonders for smoothing the hull (where drips, runs, and assorted other infelicities are breeding). I discovered this…

The saw arrived this afternoon. It’s just a grip for a hacksaw blade without the extensive framework of an actual hacksaw, exactly what I needed. I traced around the skeg receiver at the specified distance from the stern and then drilled four small holes side by side through the hull along two sides of the…

I think I’m counting days of work on the boat consecutively, not calendrically: that is, between the last post and this one, two sunrises and sunsets have taken place, a rocket launch, and a syslunch. I’ve gone two full days and nights without touching the boat, but I’m going from Day 25 to Day 26…

I put a second coat of epoxy on the fiberglass last night and a third this morning. To review: the first coat is to bind the glass to the wood and begin filling the weave. The second coat might fill the weave if the first was sufficiently uniform, but the need for a third is…