Anders

Oooooh. Nice! But likely out of my price range ...

Thanks guys. It looks like long oars might be required. Doug, do the plans include suggested lengths for proper rowing ergonomics? Anders Bjorklund

Am considering the CS17 mk3 as a possible Everglades Challenge vehicle. How awkward would it be to row for long periods of light winds? Does the mizzen interfere to the point that the mast must be unstepped?

Hi Will, It's easy to shave down the tape edge ridges using many light strokes with a sharp scraper. Hardware stores sell nice ones with replaceable carbide blades that last well. Ordinary flexible steel cabinet scrapers work fine too, and can be flexed into a convex (or concave, I suppose) scraping profile that is nice for shaving down small areas. I have also used the replaceable blades for ordinary utility knives for scraping epoxy. For smoothing concave fillets, I have read that filing sharp corners on a round washer is also effective. It apparently is either held in the fingers, or gripped with a Vise-grips, but I've yet to try that. I like to scrape epoxy rather than sand it, whenever I can. It seems to go faster, and creates zero dust. I do a light sanding after scraping, and then apply the microballoon fairing mixture, as Alan Stewart has described. Anders