Inside jobs

I've been doing what I can to make life as easy as possible once the deck goes on.

The spin sheet boxes are cleaned up, and ready to install. I also cut the speaker holes out back, so I can use it as an arm hole when I glue down and tab the two aft pieces of deck.

Bow is close to ready. Everything forward of f89 has been epoxy sealed, and I've installed my forestay eye against the back of the stem. I've got one more eye to install for the pole-out line- these things are heaps easier without crawling into the bow of the boat. It's very tight up there, I've already learned. Also visible here are the extensions of the boat's main stringers, done as a kind of I-beam with okoume ply on the vertical, and a fir strip rabbeted over it as the cap. To join the centerline seam, I laid down a piece of 6" tape, a piece of 3" tape, then some foam strips with beveled edges, capped by a piece of uni tape (folded in half lengthwise for a double layer, on top of the foam only), all capped by a 6" strip of glass tape. Trying to kill a few birds with the same stone- to join the panels at the seam, and add some panel stiffness.

The last areas to be coated are the bays between f89 and f124. Spent an hour today sanding and "de-burring" all the fiber edges and it's just about ready now except for a cleanup.

There's a couple other oddities that I'm working on in the skunkworks. If they turn out anything like I hope, I'll add pics as they go on the boat.