Hooray, today I finally finished stripping the boat!!
I am apprehensive about the tasks to come, but very happy to be done laying the wood of the hull. And I am starting to bond with Ocean Blue. :-)
Pics:
How I chose to lay the bottom and keel line, beyond the stems: keel detail
And then I removed most of the staples, in preparation for planing and sanding: look, no staples.
Here is the cool-looking pattern on the boat bottom.
A funny thing is that I used water-soluble glue... even though it looks like a boat right now, if I set it in the water (never mind the gaps (this is not London)) it would fall apart into wet kindling.
The epoxy will fix all that ....
You should take a puppy out dancing
to celebrate!
It really looks great!
Posted by: Hanako at June 6, 2005 10:29 AMI think I may get a massage to celebrate.
Posted by: melissa at June 6, 2005 12:23 PMHa ha! You do have that gift certificate. :) Shoulders sore from all the staple pulling?
Good luck with the sanding! The boat looks great already.
Posted by: Andrew at June 6, 2005 03:11 PM