Plenty to do

Here's a couple shots of the morning after. I was astonished to run a centerline on the new boat and find every rib to be dead center. Even a blind pig fins an acorn once in a while.
The large tool sitting on the boat is an edge fairing device, to bring the raw edges of the sides into the same plane as the temp ribs. It has 36-grit sandpaper glued to one edge. This wacky system I am using, with no inner chine log, makes it tough to define that edge plane without some sort of giant gizmo like this.

Boat #1, Euphrates, does not seem to be jealous that there's a new baby, Lodore, in the shop. I'm doing all the hateful gutter and edge glassing on her now. My god I hate fiberglassing. Thank heaven boat #3 will be an open boat--same hull, but an all-oiled interior. Probably take about 1/3 the time as these first two beasts.

The good thing about having both boats under construction is there is always something else to do while the epoxy is kicking on one boat.

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Comment by Jeremy Christensen on March 8, 2010 at 9:14am
I am so jealous.

I can't wait to have a boat(s) under construction again. I hate the glassing too, but the process as a whole is unbelievably fulfilling.

If my boat survives the Grand in tact, I may sell it and build another, not because I am in any way unhappy with it, but because I just want to build another boat incorporating everything I have learned and experienced since I built the "Desolation." If the boat doesn't survive, well. it's insured so either way I may get a new boat out of the deal.

Lodore and Euphrates are looking fine, cherry wine.

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