Ready to turn over

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Monday, Mar. 22:  I gave the exterior of the hull a light sanding, and a sealer coat of penetrating epoxy.  When that has cured, tomorrow, the boat will be ready to be turned over so work on the inside can begin.  That's not to say the outside is finished.  There will be plenty of filling and fairing, a covering of fabric and epoxy, and work around the centerboard slot once that is cut.

The general schedule for the inside is: Brace the sides so the hull holds its shape. 2. The keelson.  3.  Cutting the centerboard slot.  4. The centerboard trunk.  5.  The thwarts. 6.The deck frames and deck.  Somewhere along the line, I need to make the rudder and spars.

Mrs.Strongback commented how pretty the hull looks with a sealer coat on it, and is sorry it can't stay that way. The sealert really brings out the colors in the Okume plywood.  But a boat like this with workboat genes shouldn't be finished bright, and even if I wanted to, by now I have accumulated plenty of dings and mistakes which a bright finish would made conspicuous but which will disappear with filler and paint.