Finishing up

Good to have the cabin top glass finished as it was really challenging getting the weather right to work these large pieces of glass outside. It ended up being 4 separate days with some sanding in between as I could only do 1/2 at a time and two layers were needed. It is way stiffer now and with supports under the jib tracks and mast step, it should be quite good. In addition to this, I've gotten the starboard hull cabin side and upper cabin tops glassed. This leaves just the port cabin top and some edge joints that need glassing on the hull outsides. Will be great to get it all primed up and some of the windows in.

Glassing up

Let's face it; I what some dodgy joints here between the ply and cedar and cedar and foam. And the weather is getting a bit iffy as late. I've begun to realize the last 2 winters were very mild and hopeful of getting this all sealed up on the exterior by Christmas.

So it only rained on me a little toward the end of this glass job so things seemed to have turned out well. All the cedar is double glassed and sealed

Winter encampment

Feeling a bit like George Washington settling in for winter. I can really sympathize with anyone trying to do this in a high latitude climate outdoors. I should have it all glass and primed by Christmas though as long as the weather is half decent.

Closing in

Strip planking the cabin front.

Rounding things off

Closing Up

The weather has continued good and great progress has been made in the last week. I spent a good deal of time reworking the angle of the front panels and framing curves to hopefully improve the overall appearance. The window is one of a pair of Bomar parallelograms I bought in July. It's a slightly different look than is commonly seen and I may need to work something else out later. I made the front side panels from 2 pieces of ply otherwise it would take nearly 2/3 a sheet to get just these two pieces.

The big top

Quite good progress was made in the last week. It proved quite tricky to handle the giant piece of foam and figure out how to hold it in place whilst I glass the inside joints.

side view

looking more like a boat

wide open

You can see why I was eager to get on with the cabin top. I really wanted to minimize the amount of rain water into the boat.