CS20 #67 is stitchless

[Noklin]

This is my first attempt at building a boat and my first experence at working with epoxy. So far it has been a lot of fun and interesting.

Since I am about 200 pounds, I was concerned about getting in the boat to tab between the wire stitches along the keel line.

Following the advice given here, I worked from outside the boat to fillet and tape the entire chine and transom and as much of the forward bulkhead, the bow and the keel line as I could reach.

The bottom of the boat as it sits on the cradle is 18 inches off the floor. This allowed me plenty of room to tab the keel line from underneath the boat.

I added two additional temporary supports to the 3 station cradle so that the hull was supported about every 3 feet.

Only then did I get in the boat to finish the tabbing/filleting/taping of the keel line aft of the temporary bulkhead.

After that had set up, I worked on the keel line forward of the temporary bulkhead, the forward bulkhead, and bow. I still have a little work to have the bow completed.

My fillets are not pretty, I used a maple wood flour so the fillets are a dark brown, they are much wider than others that I have seen here and their width is not perfectly consistent, but I think that they will be strong enough for their intended purposes.

Thankfully, most of the fillets will be out of sight inside lockers or under the deck and the others will be covered with paint.

Have to get film developed before I can post any better pictures, these were taken with a very cheap digital. Of course, I am not sure that it will look any better with a better camera :shock:

[Arnie Eaton]

Keep doing what you have been doing and you will have one fine boat.

[JeffM]

Your sheer looks nice and smooth. I had trouble getting that. Good job!