enough work off to the races

Life does not get any better than a 190 mile sailboat race

Topsides paint

I had to contain the dust and keep direct sun off the boat so build i did



I took about 50 pounds of old paint off so far with a razor blade and STRONG 15 minute paint stripper and found soemthing resembling original gel coat

It does not look like much BUT its over 240 sq-ft of surface to prep

the last piece of forward core

Now for a bunch of glass work

what else more core

A bit of plywood to hold things up now that i ran out of flat ground



And the bow has been reached :)

Starting the topside paint

i don't know why but the hull is called the topsides :) So i changed to cover a bit to make some work room and started in the worst place on the boat



gonna have to order the gallon of water proof filler

main suport beam back in

Through some act of kindness this beam was in good condition and i was able to drill aliment holes before removing it and epoxy it back in the same place over the new core and the deck now has its original crown

but of course more core progress

It was freaking Hot this week




The paper thin edges was all that was holding up the inner skin had cut from above







And another week another two feet of core the good news is its gets narrow the bad news is theres nothing easy to hold up the core now