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My goal has been to get some time working on the boat everyday, and today in snuck down and worked for an hour while the family was watching the Grinch. Mounted some of my electrical stuff. Great day with the family. I hope you all had a great Christmas. I decided to put the panel here: I kind of went a bit rogue in framing the cubby behind the cockpit opening (I thought though light weight, the stock setup looked a bit rough) and it gave me a good place to hide this thing. Mounted below it on the inside will be the Blue Seas Fuse panel. The quality of this thing is very high. It will be accessible with a couple of thumbscrews. You can see an extra 12V outlet and there will be another one on the other side. I plan on using 12V to USB adapters. I hate that many of the wired USB outlets don't have a shut-off. BTW, the solar charge controller has a voltmeter making viewing the battery state not that important. The mounting location was chosen because I hated to take away the good seating in the cabin by having much on the aft bulkhead No 3. I originally wanted to keep the wires short, Graham's comment about being able to switch on the lights from the cockpit resonated. I will head to West Marine to get a bit of tinned 12 gauge wire to feed from the battery. Otherwise I have all the wire I need. The 50 Watt solar panel came with leads I swear I could jump start my car with. Do I really need wires that heavy? Seems overkill.

Yeah, I'm up, can't sleep, so I'll get an early start on my traditional Christmas day sail. I cheated and sailed today, knowing it was going to be cooler tomorrow. Lovely day, mid 70's, 8 knots and I owned the lake, with everyone heading over to grandma's house. This is the usual case on Christmas day too, not a sole out, so I can sail naked if I wanted. Have a happy holiday folks . . .

Parson butt joining the second skin for the bottom plank before fitting it. I probably don't need to do this but I won't regret having done it

Hi guys. Took a 12 month break for various reasons, money, disappointed at the bow not going together smoothly, other things happening. Anyways, I'm back at it with renewed enthusiasm. I putting the skin on, crawling under and filleting from below, then will tape the outside before turning over so it all holds together. I still have to put the second layer on the bottom plank. The fillets are a bit skinny but it's just to hold it all together. I'll upgrade them when I turn over and tape them as well.