Steve W

Congratulations on your build. It looks great and I really liked the video with all your crew. Sailkote, which is a dry lubricant does a great job on the sail tracks.

Love the color scheme! More pics please!

Mark.....what came to mind was "Go big or go home!" That is an epic gash/repair!

I wrapped mine and at the green stage measured with calipers. I added an extra wrap or two until I was just a bit over. The I took my orbital sander and brought it into a nice snug fit by laying the tube on a flat bench and rolling while I sanded. Very easy and it came out really nice.

Looking this over makes me feel o inadequate. When i fractured a panel I just injected glue into it, and clamped it under plastic with a lot of weight. Luckily it was still flat. I marked it and after assembly I laid some glass on the inside. I'm guessing none of this was an otion for you that far along. It's these challenges that are the most memorable when it's all over.

Mark, that looks sweet. I somehow bumped my keel and it's about 3/16" out of straight. I was so sad about that mistake, but she sails just fine! You are making fine progress now!

The transducer works perfectly!

I'm not sure about a fish finder, but I put my transducer inside the boat. Here's how I did it: https://messing-about.com/forums/topic/9419-core-sound-20-mark-iii-3-skeena/?do=findComment&comment=106509

She looks sweet. Love the paint color!

Wow. Buiding in the basement had some lows: epoxy chrystalizing, dust, noise, and the eventual difficult extraction. But year round 58 was so nice. Working on it outside at 90 sucks, but 99? Ouch.

Mark, I used a piece of white oak , which is very rot resistant closed pore wood. Its fault has been said that it doesn't glue well. I have a old cheap table saw blade I banged a tooth or two off so it leaves a rough finish. I glued the strip down after a radius was added to accept 3/4 stainless hollow back rub rail, which I glued/ screwed on. 19 sails in with no irssues. Hope this helps.

Thanks. I took my course out of Liberty Landing Marina. We were tacking with all the boat traffic.....excursion boats, ferries, cargo, pleasure boats. I was kind of having an mental overload when my instructor said "relax, I heard if you can make it here you can make it anywhere......"

That is awesome. I took my charter certification out of New York and spent a week sailing those water. I'd planned to take Skeena there this fall. where did you launch?

One thing I did was to put a 2 x 6 tied tight to the rear d rings. With a hole in its middle and the bow eye supported i could flip the boat easily by myself.

These post bring back memories, which are getting better with time. There are some people (Chick, I'm talking about you) who love to build. And others, like me that just want a boat that I couldn't get unless I built it myself and liked, but didn't love the building process. Now I'm at that point where I go sailing and am amazed I finished and it sails so well.. I hope you are more like Chick. I'm looking forward to that sailing day for you. I like that you painted the aft storage. I didn't, and it's kind of dark in there.

Pete, I like what you did, but I've had a hard time feeling comfortable leaving the cockpit and going below to pop up and work the sail when sailing solo. I feel pretty helpless leaving the tiller, halyards and sheets for even a second. Also, my hatch contains a solar panel on it's lid and I made the exact same dogs Graham did on Carlita and I'm uncomfortable leaving the hatch un-dogged at the time I'm needing a reef or two. By the time I go forward, make a change, re-dog it just doesn't feel right. I'm hopeful this change will accomplish what I want from the cockpit for the most part. I'm close to having the second reef point rigged (maybe tomorrow) to test. I can reach the first two reef ties from the companionway. Also, in a pinch it's easy to drop the sail.

that looks great!

One advantage your slide open hatch design has is the ability to pop out of it. I tried and think it's not really practical for my hinged hatch. I keep it dogged and by the time I could go below and pop out I might jibe or worse. I do think adding a downhaul will make it easy to add the first reef from the cockpit. I dropped sail to add it before, but it was slow. I did pause to reef the mizzen. Tying the first two sail ties was easy and safe standing on the cabin step.

I just got back from a 4 day 3 night trip on Skeena. I love this boat so much. Everything just worked out great. I've tweaked a few things to the way I like them, but the design is just awesome. I do plan on adding a second down-haul forward. I ordered the parts from B & B. Sunday morning the wind piped up to where I needed to reef the main and I wasn't comfortable going out on the Cabin top to move the down-haul hook up to reef. I dropped the sail to accomplish this but I think I would be fine lowering the sail by releasing the halyard and pulling down on the 2nd down-haul. Pointing up I can easily reach the reef cleats and I'd easily have the first reef in. Once I added the Mizzen reef I would then go forward to move the original down-haul up to the 3rd reef spot in case a 2nd reef became necessary. None of this has been necessary because up to this point I almost always had crew. I am also going to add some kind of a tent from the mizzen mast forward over the companionway. The UV index for all four days was off the charts and it was warm in the cabin. I used an umbrella to stay out of the sun a few times, but I really need to rig something. Any suggestions would be welcomed. I'm heading to Maine 2 weeks from now and I need to scramble on this. My dermatologist told me so ?. Pics and a video soon. Steve

I'd laminate one with strips like the center board.

Well done. Love the tribute to your mom. My first B & B build I named after my mom Susan Josephine Wenke. The Suzy J. It reminds me of her, but best is that I've had a great amount of opportunity to talk to her and share her legacy like you are clearly doing. She was an amazing woodworker (no boats though!), seamstress, artist and gave me the "get er done" spirit. And yes, the devil is in the details!

I learned from Pete M to make lists and set goals. It helped and it still took 4.5 years. You are way ahead of my schedule. ?

I have raised an lowered my masts on the boat. I had the entire rig off the masts, which made it easy. I would only want to do it on lfat water, but that was a desirable feature as there is a place I launch with a bridge. The tabernacles are pretty handy.

Is there a suggested "proper" way to lash the snap hooks to the sail clew. Every-time I look at mine I think of the old Boy Scout knot rule.........if you can;t tie a good one, tie a lot of them. I have also had my square knots loosen that I tied in the chord supplied by B & B. Surely there's a trick to be learned.

Pete, it was a pleasure having you lead the way building Chessie before Skeena. It must be difficult to see here go,. I'm just glad you still will be part of the scene with an S10. Great boats!