Starting the third year by mounting the deck frames

January 2011 was the beginning of the third year of the build. With meticulous records Richard has totalled 2693 hours. He originally calculated 5 to 6 thousand hours to completion....about the half way point?
By subtracting out the 13 weeks lost to building due to injuries and other obligations, but not removing other short times off to see the kids, travel to boat festivals, etc he has averaged 30 hours per week on the boat. Sometimes he works as much as 60 hours per week, especially at times like preparing for the boat rolling.



View of the saloon bulkhead that will be raised to cabin height.

Glassed in subfloor over the integral water tanks.

Glassed and sanded main bilge area with the engine compartment visible in front of picture.

Support framing for the deck and the back lazarette was created at the transom. The sheer was notched and frame pieces mounted to the transom to hold the quarter knees.

After fitting, the quarter-knees, frames and brackets were sanded, finished with epoxy and prepped for mounting.

The brackets between the quarter-knees frame out the lazarette.

The bracket is cut up to allow access into the sides.

Back frames are added to support the hatch.

All frames are epoxied in place and clamped.

Clamps at every angle.

Richard has been being diligent about wearing his "sperm suit" and respirator while doing epoxy work. He started to develop a burn type rash on the inside of his lower arms while using
epoxy in short sleeves. Sanding partially cured epoxy also seemed to increase the irritation. So back to full coverage.

The cockpit was constructed from 3/4" marine plywood. Since creating a smooth nice fillet on the inside corner was a challenge, Richard trimmed and used a piece of cove moulding. The floor of the cockpit will be glassed and epoxied seperately. The rabbet around the bottom of the well will increase the epoxy surface and the floor will be be screwed into place with bronze screws.

A compact cockpit, but since she has a tiller, there will be no binnacle to hog floor space.

A nice view of the frames in place. The center is the cockpit, the left and back are lazarettes.

I couldn't resist another pic of the sweet transom.....

I tried another view, but it is pretty distorted.

More finish epoxy work, fillets, and sanding of the entire inside.

The entire inside is sanded and cleaned.

This is looking into the port side lazarette.

Now....to start fairing the deck frames......lots of arm breaking work to get the tops of the frames smooth in relation to each other.