Progress came to a standstill over summer. We did a little work in May and now we’re really going for it. We got scared when we realised another summer was coming and we could again be on the shore watching.
Before summer we managed to get those difficult bow planks on. Big windlasses and 10mm threaded rod (even some of that got stripped) where how we coped with it.
Since then we’ve been working our way through the planks. We’re on the top one with just the forward section on either side to go. Then we’ll be turning her over to work on the bottom.
Our trusty epoxy mixing machine. 
We trim the cloth as we go, once it's all been wetted. 
The first coat is on, but it needs several coats of epoxy resin to fill the weave of the fiberglass cloth. If you wait for the epoxy to dry (roughly a day) you'll have to scrub the amine blush off, and then sand it before you can apply the next coat. However you can apply another coat while the epoxy is in the ‘green’ state – started to cure, but not hardened, slightly tacky – or roughly six hours.
And so six hours later the second coat is carefully applied. We've added a little fairing powder to the resin to make it lighter and help full the weave quicker. 
As the evening wears on we realise we need to heat the garage. Dad couldn't resist using his new toy.
Eventually common sense prevailed (before everything went up in flames). The fourth coat went on at midnight and the final at six AM. 
