Closing in on completion, or at least thinking about launching. I got the coamings ready for permanent installation and am getting the mast ready to go. Also the rudder is coming up soon so stay tuned.
The deck has been attached and sheathed in fiberglass and epoxy, and here the comings are fitted and I am shaping the top edge.
These are the mast parts, I am doing a birds mouth mast assembly. There a 8 staves, each with a 45 degree cutout in one edge and tapered so the the assembly will be tapered as well. Watch more more pics soon.
I needed to get the boat out of the shop to work on the mast so I hooked it up a towed it up the hill a bit. I was just standing in the shop doorway admiring the view.
Today I had my wife help me rip a nice VG doug fir board I had up in the attic of my shop into staves for the birds mouth mast. Then we made the bird mouth cut and I tapered them with the power plane and then tuned them with the hand plane. Here is a shot of the mast dry fitted prior to the glue up. It's about 3 1/2" at the base and 2 1/2" at the top. After the glue up, I'll plane and sand it round.
