Month: September 2009

Fair lazarette lids and radius. Radius rudderstock and samson post holes. Fibreglass holes and cutout edges. Fill all staple holes. Scrape back cutout fibreglass, and grind deck fair. Prepare for and fibreglass deck and lids.

Prepare cradle and lift hull to remove rudder. Remove copper from rudder and deadwood in way of rudderpost. Remove rudder fittings and scrape paint from deadwood and rudder.

Decide on setup for maststep, fuel tank, samson post, and engine/rudder/propellor.

Fit and trim cockpit coamings, beam, and trim timbers. Let in samson post. Mark and cut lazarette lids from aft deck. Make, fit, and glue on edge trims to lazarette cutouts and lids. Fit hinges to lids and deck. Bore for and glue in dowels in way of all hinge screws. Make, fit, glue ands screw on drainage channels. Clean up channels and radius trims for fibreglass. Trim back edges trim with sheerstrakes and fair sheerstrakes to hull. Rout rebate into deck edge/sheerstrake top. Make, fit, glue on, and fair edge trims to deck and hull.