I knew it was a long shot getting the boat ready for the water by 28 October. I still have a couple of weeks worth of work to go. I am not even certain I will launch the boat before we close up shop in Rhode Island for the winter. Did you notice that I did not use the word finish. I hate to give Gary any fodder but someone once said that a boat is never finished................ until it sinks.
Well the good news is I definitely have a shot at having things ready for 2012.
Before I put the decking on I like to precoat the underside with two or three coats of epoxy. Since epoxy bonds best to either bare wood or green epoxy and bonds less well to fully cured epoxy, I usually leave uncoated the areas under the deck that will bear on framing.
This left an interesting pattern on the last piece of deck that closes up the bow. The large opening is there for the base of the mast to swing through. It make me think of a church and of course it lays just forward of the tabernacle.
This shows the framing under the fore deck. The arch was laminated from several layers of very thin wood. There is a lamp in there to help keep things warm so as to move the curing process along.
Here I have primer on the topsides, but still a long ways from being ready for the water.
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