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And Now For Something Completely Different...

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So, in the interest of thinking about something else, I've been spending some time on paint schemes and things like that.  We (my lovely wife and I) sat down last Saturday night, each with the requisite cocktail, and made some sketches.  What do you think?  Think you can do better?  Here's the link to the blank line drawing that Hull 79 gave me (link on Hull 79's page).   Link Here Our ideas... The last is a really bad representation of what I was intending.  I didn't have the right colors, but  here's  a link to what I was intending. The side of the cabin where the lower window is will need to be some bright (probably florescent) color (safety yellow, orange, pink, green).  All boats will be required to carry their hull number (113 for me) on each side of the bow in large numbers as well. Share your ideas with me.  I'd like to see what other people think.

And then it gets faster...

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 So, I guess this is like all projects.  You work and work and work doing small, seemingly inconsequential stuff, and then all in a couple of hours, it seems to make a huge jump ahead.  After a bunch of prep of rings by sanding and epoxy coating and fitting and installing hatches (people and inspection), we finally hung the rings on the strongback. I haven't hung the stem yet because it needs some shaping.  Once that's done, it's just about putting in a bunch of epoxy fillets to hold everything together.  Then it's on to installing and shaping stringers.