I took the weekend off from boat building in order to build a fence at the beach house at Ocean Isle Beach. Was ready to get back to the boat shop, so after my normal work day, I put in another 6 hours of boat building Monday night (got a phone call a little after midnight from a not so happy wife who woke up in the middle of the night to find she was sleeping alone). Sanded glass and then glassed in the cockpit deck. We had a really cold spell last night (down to the low 30s), so I waited for what seemed like forever for the fillets to kick. They were only partially kicked when I laid glass, but it still worked out fine.
The boat is getting to the point where you can really tell how she will look when finished. I had Beau help me with crowning out the deck in order to speed up the process. It would have taken me a good amount of time to think through it, and crown out each station, and he can do it by eye at this point. While he was crowning the stations to accept the deck, Mr. Reginold glassed the back sides of the panels that run along the chine between the front and aft deck. He grinded them down once they cured, so they are set to go. So, that was money well spent I think--probably saved me about a week's worth of build time.
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