Random small progress

First, I (with several others) got a front page mention in SA:

...so I got that going for me.

The strips of Core-Cell foam glued to the cockpit uprights. Once the decks get installed, I'll sand these to a nice 2" or so radius.

I love shots like these. Too bad this is just one coat of primer, with lots of orange peel. I'll light it better and sand it before the next pic.

The whole keel, primed and ready to hang out for a while.

It's been slow progress otherwise. A week off for a race to Cabo (and a weekend of house projects to make up for that), work on the Pac Cup boat, kid's birthday, the usual list of excuses.

So next up is more tabbing of the cockpit to the hull stringers- it's only glued in now. Then I think I'll finally be ready to put the sides onto the boat.

I ordered a couple of foam cores from Flying Foam for my rudder, abandoning the fir-strip blank I have glued up. I hadn't wanted to do a straight or straight-tapered foil, so had decided to shape my own. Then I saw that Bram at Swift had used two hot-wired foils glued end to end, duh! So I have a straight piece and a tapered piece coming, I'll glue them end to end and blend the joint a little, wrap it all in carbon, and the end result is a nearly elliptical plan form, much lighter than with the fir core.