I had a day off yesterday. No work, no boat building. Just a lazy day watching surfers at McMaster’s beach and a burger for lunch. A great relaxing day. Today I sanded the last section of the hull and vacuumed and

Four hours work today although only 3 of them were spent sanding. I took regular (about every 15 minutes I had 5 minutes off) breaks. I managed to sand about 3/4’s of the hull. I have sanded all but the large

I applied the second coat of highbuild today. It was a warm day and the coat was setting on parts of the hull while I was still applying the coat to other parts so I should have no problems starting to sand it tomorrow.

I did the last of the sanding today but not as much as I thought I would need to do. I decided it would be a good idea for now not to sand the joins. I want there to be a build up of highbuild on the very edge of the

I had a good day today. Whilst my arms were feeling quite sore, my energy level was high and I got the entire outboard side of the hull sanded. I took me about 3 hours. So apart from about another hours sanding on the

Yes, another 2 hours of sanding and now the inboard side of the hull has been completely sanded (for this coat). I am sanding using a combination of the Bohler and orbital and the shorter long board. I cant use the

I managed 2 hours of sanding (about my limit) today. I started at the bow on the inboard side. I usually like to get the outboard side done first so that I use most energy on the most important side of the hull before

I didn’t do much on the boat today. I wandered in mid afternoon primarily to check that the highbuild was setting ok and to change the wheels on one of the cradles. The wheels I originally put on were supposed to