Work on the mahogany gunwales

 Set and plugged

 Putting final finish on now, starting with the cockpit;

While finishing I will also be working on gunnel pieces;

Prepping and scarfing;

I will also pre-bend them in a jig;

Final fairing and finishing to primer

 In between fire and smoke evacuations, I managed to get some progress on the SEI.  Below is a series of photos showing that progress to primer. Final finish and graphics will take a while longer and I still have to put together a trailer.

Also I put together the oarlocks to be installed after paint.

 

Finishing, the long slow process

Mostly working on fairing the cockpit now. 

For me getting a good consistency of filler that doesn't tend to flow downhill has been difficult. So before doing the sides I installed the gudgeon using it and the bow eye as lift points. With a couple of vangs that I had, i could easily lift and adjust the angle.

I have also set the pintles on the rudder head.

One thing I did notice is that with unlocks on the studs it will be difficult to put the pintle pins in. I am hoping after I set the gudgeons permanently I can grind down any excess thread to help.

And here is shot of the bow eye.

 

Odds and Ends

Getting a few things done in the heat.

Boat is flipped and putting seats in place.

Placing towing eye before the seat goes in.

And redialing the bolt hole in the rudder

Rudder work

Because I am using a solid word rudder I had to slot for the up/downhaul line.

With the right cutter it was pretty easy.

Then to drill holes for the end knots in the lines;

Putting final epoxy coats on the rudder pieces also;

Slow process of fairing out the hull.

Setting bolts for gudgeons. Once again making sure everything is lined up with some allthread;

Laminated tiller had to be done in two pieces and joined because of shaping tool limitations.

Also glued together rudder box

then on to finishing all parts

Waiting for a cutter for my router to cut the control line slot in the rudder, but still have plenty to keep me busy on the hull finishing.

After getting the interior taped and filleted it was time to flip the boat again to finish up the hull.

After some more fairing I fully glassed the bottom and lower panel.

 Then put the skeg together

At the same time I steam bent the bow trim

 Laminating them in place

 Also putting up the rudder blocks by putting them on a jig to make sure of distance and angle

Once in place everything was filleted. I also have decided to glass cloth the skeg for further protection.

Doing my filleting was made easier by being able to angle the boat \.

Pre-coating seat panels, but will be fairing out the hull before flipping again.