Holiday!

I went on holiday cruise for a week so i missed out on a lot of the construction of the boat.  So when i came back everyone had been working on the deck and getting that all glassed up and putting it in the hot box for it to cook.  So when i got back the first thing i did was cut out the hatch for the cock pit and was dry fitting the deck to check the bulkheads that were in there.  Unfortunatly we had a fairly big problem with them but it is fixable but a problem none the less.  The next step was to cut the deck to size, bevel it and fit that into situe.

Gluing the deck down was the next step and we started it by applying the epoxy in the places where the deck would touch the flange, gerder flange, bulkhead and transom.  When the deck gets lowered down we need to hold down with preasure untill the glue sets so we made some tool that we can cramp the deck down using the frames.  After we put the deck down someone (ME) had to getting in the cockpit which is a very small area and then had to go down the side past the station 7 bulkhead and reach the station 11 bulkhead and clean off the excess glue that was in there, very very tricky job. 

On the wednesday we did some coving up forward and prepared for flipping the boat over.  When flipping it over we had to get some extra hands from upstairs and after we got it over the class went down to the bar and a drink as it is tradition to do so.