5/22/20 - The plans are delivered.
6/14/20 - Mylar bulkhead patterns are laid out on a piece of plywood.
Bulkhead H is traced onto the wood.
6/15/20 - Bulkheads are traced onto the plywood.
Bulkheads A and B are cut out.
Transom doubler is cut out.
6/16/20 - Bulkhead G is traced onto the plywood.
Bulkhead G is cut out.
The upper pieces are epoxied to the main section.
Bulkhead D is epoxied together.
6/17/20 - Notches for stringers are routed out on all the bulkheads.
6/19/20 - The forward end of the backbone is reinforced with extra plywood.
6/22/20 - The transom and doubler are fiberglassed on one side.
Three other bulkheads are fiberglassed on one side.
The lifing keel is ready for shaping.
6/23/20 - Bulkheads E and F are fiberglassed.
Bulkhead H is fiberglassed.
Previously glassed bulkheads are given epoxy fill coats.
Doublers are epoxed in place on bulkhead B.
6/25/20 - The transom doubler is epoxied to the transom.
Bulkheads B, E, and F are fiberglassed on the other side.
Flipside of bulkhead H is glassed.
6/26/20 - Low areas on the keel are filled with epoxy.
The last two bulkheads are ready for fiberglass.
6/27/20 - Bulkheads D and I are fiberglassed and fill coated.
Bulkhead C is fiberglassed.
6/28/20 - Bulkhead D is ready for fiberglass.
Bulkhead E is ready for fiberglass.
The glass is saturated with epoxy.
6/29/20 - Some parts are temporarily moved outside to make room.
Fiberglass is laid out on one side of the keel.
7/1/20 - The other side of the keel is fiberglassed.
7/3/20 - Carbon fiber cloth is laid onto the keel.
7/5/20 - The inside surface of the keel trunk is coated with an epoxy/graphite mixture.
The keel is coated with an epoxy/graphite mixture.
7/6/20 - The other side of the keel is coated with an epoxy/graphite mixture.
The sides of the keel trunk are epoxied in place.
7/7/20 - The keel trunk sides are fiberglassed.
7/8/20 - The keel is test fit in the keel trunk.
7/10/20 - The temporary frame is built.
Bulkheads A, B, and C are fixed into place.
7/11/20 - Bulkhead D and the forward backbone section are set up.
7/12/20 - The forward half of the backbone is epoxied in place.
7/14/20 - The keel trunk and bulkhead E are epoxied in place.
View of what will be the head compartment.
7/16/20 - Bulkhead F is in place.
7/18/20 - Bulkheads G and H are in place.
Bulkhead I in place.
7/19/20 - The transom is fitted.
The transom and bulkhead I are epoxied in place.
Bulkheads G, F, and E are epoxied in place.
The boat is ready for stringers.
An overall view.
7/24/20 - Stringers are epoxied to full length using scarf joints.
7/25/20 - The rest of the stringers are epoxied together.
8/2/20 - The sheer clamp (piece where the deck and hull meet) is epoxied and screwed into place.
8/10/20 - The first stringer is set in place.
All of the stringers are in place.
The shape of the sugar scoop is determined.
View from the bow.
Overall view from the stern.
8/15/20 - The mast is transported home.
8/16/20 - The wall that holds the door into the head is wired in place.
8/17/20 - The anchor well floor is test fit.
8/18/20 - The anchor well floor is reinforced with two layers of fiberglass.
8/23/20 - Tangent doublers are epoxied to tangent stringers.
9/2/20 - The cockpit sole support stringer is epoxied in place.
9/5/20 - The anchor compartment shelf is epoxied in place.
9/22/20 - Upper hull panels are fit for the starboard side.
View from the inside of the boat.
9/23/20 - The starboard side hull panels are epoxied and screwed in place.
Rabbet is cut in a hull panel.
Port side hull panels are fitted.
9/25/20 - Port side upper panels are epoxied in place.
10/2/20 - First two bottom panels are epoxied in place.
10/7/20 - The starboard middle bottom panel is test fit.
Both middle bottom panels are epoxied in place.
10/9/20 - The last two hull bottom panels are epoxied in place.
View from the port side.
10/13/20 - The first layer of the radius chine panels is begun on the port bow.
10/13/20 - Starboard side.
View from inside the bow.
10/14/20 - The first layer of radius panels are test fit on the port side.
The first section is epoxied in place.
10/17/20 - The entire first layer of radius panels are epoxied on the port side.
10/18/20 - The starboard side panels.
10/19/20 - One final panel to fit.
All the starboard panels of the first layer are epoxied.
View from inside.
Overall wide angle view.
10/20/20 - The second layer for the port radius section is going on.
10/22/20 - Several more pieces are epoxied in place.
View of the interior from the v-berth looking aft.
View of the hull bottom.
Different angle.
View from the port quarter berth looking forward.
10/23/20 - A test piece for mounting flush windows.
A section of the second layer is removed in preparation for epoxy.
The entire port side radius is done.
10/25/20 - Adding the hull panels is complete!
11/7/20 - The first hull window is cut out.
The hole for the retracting motor is cut out.
11/10/20 - Gaps are filled with epoxy.
Spacer pieces are epoxied in at the end of the sugar scoop.
12/7/20 - Unidirectional carbon fiber is epoxied to the hull to increase the hull stifness.
Extra reinforcment around the chainplate and mast step areas.
12/8/20 - Mahogany pieces are epoxied on the bow stem as an extra protection against low speed collisions.
11/9/20 - The stem pieces are sanded smooth.
12/10/20 - The bow is sanded smooth.
12/11/20 - The first section of fiberglass cloth is laid on the hull.
Saturated with epoxy.
12/12/20 - The section section of the hull is fiberglassed.
12/15/20 - The rest of the hull is ready for epoxy.
12/17/20 - The rest of the fiberglass is saturated with epoxy.
12/19/20 - Filling the weave of the fiberglass has started.
12/23/20 - Hull construction is complete! Sanding and paint is next.
12/27/20 - Finish sanding has begun!
12/31/20 - Sanding of the bottom and port topsides is done.
1/7/21 - The bottom is ready for primer.
1/8/21 - The area below the waterline is given two coats of primer.
1/11/21 - After several coats of primer, the first coat of copper free bottom paint is applied.
1/14/21 - Three coats of bottom paint have been applied.
1/16/21 - First coat of topsides primer is applied.
1/18/21 - The primer is sanded.
The first coat of Interlux Perfection is applied.
10/19/21 - Several coats of paint have been applied.
1/23/21 - The strongback is dismantled out from underneath the boat.
The aft hoisting mechanism for the hull turning is set up.
1/24/21 - Everything is ready for the turning.
Halfway through the process.
Turned over and settled in on the cradles.
See the next gallery for interior build photos.