sand, sand, sand, sand, bacon, eggs and sand

13 combined hours to sand the epoxy coat!

We put on the first undercoat as a kind of sacrificial coat, to show us all the holes and checks that needed filling and we couldn't see before. Then, of course, we sanded most of it off.

The distressed look. Maybe it's okay in a kitchen but I'd rather not see it on my boat.

laminations

We’re laminating the tiller, bowsprit and traveller arch out of Fijian kauri and sapele.

Our cabinet maker friend Murray Jordan ripped and thicknessed the timber for us.

The tiller and traveller arch are laminated.

And the Bowsprit (clamping it up felt like playing foosball!). We’re building it a little larger than plans as we’ll be flying a gennaker off it.

coaming stringer & epoxy coating

It’s taken four weeks to complete all the coving in the corners. Now it’s done we've glued on the coaming stringer. (We didn’t want it to get in the way before.)

We’ve gave the whole cockpit a coat of epoxy resin, and two coats on high wear areas like floor, seat tops and seat fronts. This is really hard and should protect the timber as well as being a great primer.

Joe dries the boat after scrubbing the amine blush off from the epoxy.

The framing is all ready for the deck to go on. I’ve planed the gunwale and coaming stringers down.