Flotation tanks - encapsulation. Deck planks.

If it was my first boat then I would be surprised that all goes so slow: whole day of work and hardly any progress visible. Well, but that’s how it is at this stage - lot’s of small jobs which take time while the boat is hardly changing. Look at Tally Ho!

I need to remind myself that this is the way it is. So that I will not get depressed. Perseverance!

Last night I vacuumed and cleaned flotation tanks so that I can start epoxy encapsulation early today. WEST hardener 207 is taking several hours at 25 C to get into “tacky” state and I wanted to roll two layers today. That’s accomplished!

Rest of the boat will be vacuumed and cleaned coming days so I can paint the bilge.

While the epoxy was curing I was working on deck planks, to give them final touch with router.

It took a few hours, interrupted by rolling the second epoxy coat in tanks. So deck planks are ready for oiling.

I started disassembling my boat shed, soon there will be time to lift the boat onto trailer and I need more space for storing deck planks and for coming mast construction. Kerosene stove went out, heat isolation on North face also out - buying me 20 cm more space to fiddle with the rudder.