Day 11 Easy for you to say...

Tea Count 2
Injuries 0
Time Spent 3 Hours
Stickiness Factor 6/10

Well here we are again folks, Sunday evening and I am having to write up three days of blog posts. The up side of this is that I'm spending more time boat building and less time writing! The downside is that I have to remember what happened a week ago. In case you were worried thinking that I may have given up, worry no more. Progress has been slow but progress there has been. I am certain that many (maybe even all three) of my readers will have had countless, or at least up to seven sleepless nights concerned for my elbow. I am happy to report that all is well and the damage was not permanent.
So after day 10's run of ill fortune I was determined to get things back on track. So with another freshly purchased drill bit I created a dozen or so holes in the bh with much more care. Once the bh's were then bolted together I was surprised at how well they matched up to each other. I'm almost thinking that the seal may be watertight with any form of gasket...hmm watch this space.

That job done, I unbolted them and then glued and screwed the bh into place. The it was onto the never ending and enthralling job of sanding. As you remember, if you have been paying attention, one half of the canoe has been taped and epoxied already. It was a little lumpy around the taping, a bit like bad custard so this needed sanding back and the flat parts required some flatting too. The edges of the tape have feathered down nicely so I'm hoping that the tape will become pretty much invisible when finished. It's a little disconcerting to be scratching the wotsit out of newly poxied wood but I am assured that a second coat will help achieve a flawless clear finish, if not it'll be pained magnolia.

The last job of the day was to mix up a little poxy (that's the official abbreviation for epoxy and I like it so it shall be used from now on) and fill in the outer seams. All edges masked off with masking tape, seems like a good choice of tape and a boring yet satisfying task completed.

Sorry about the lack of pictures today but there really is nothing of note to show. Sanding is just sanding after all, apologies to all the sanding fetishists out there. That's a very hard word word to say...fetishists!