The boat project has hundreds of tiny tasks to complete, all adding up, the brochure said, about 100 hours of effort to get the boat completed.
I am at about 300 hours now. I exaggerate, but, well, 100 hours assumes dexterity, skill, etc. Oh well.
Here, the trailing edge of the rudder, shaped by your truly, reveals the inner secrets of plywood construction. I touched up the epoxy coating on this piece last night, hitting small spots I had missed the day before.
I also coated the mast step, shown below. This piece will sit, naturally enough, atop the forward seat and form a resting place for the mast. Because the boat doubles as a rowing dinghy, and someone might want to sit where this piece goes, it will be removable -- held in place by a pair of bolts and wing nuts. I'm sealing it with epoxy so that it will be ready to coat with varnish when I do all the other varnish work.
Ah, the blue painter's tape. Those bits flag areas where I need to do something -- sand off epoxy gobs, re-coat with more epoxy where I sanded too much. The image below demonstrates the fine, furniture-quality finish work I'm doing on my boat. (Lawn furniture. Cheap lawn furniture).
People who have done this sort of thing before suggest that one continues to refine the work until it's "good enough." When I started I thought that meant "until I'm satisfied with it." Now I know it means "until I can't stand it any more and have run out of swear words."
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