Mistakes will be made

No matter how hard you try not to, mistakes will be made. Got carried away belt sanding the keel blocking and sanded about 1/4" too much. Thank goodness for epoxy thickeners.

Next: sanding everything fair followed by smelting (lead pour).

Just above the string, you can see the gap.

Just above the string, you can see the gap.

Problem solved.

Boat Names

Now would be a good time to consider boat names for my PS. Some ideas I have are: Caviar (my last name is Roe), Valour (one of the 7 virtues), Nauti1, Bok Choy (it just sounds cool to me). Open for other suggestions. People don't be shy.

Daggerboard trunk & keel dry-run (pre-glue-up)

Added blocking under rear to try to avoid the skewing of the centerline that frequently happens here. Thinking about drilling pilot screws at pivot points to help minimize the time it takes lining everything up during glue-up (of course I'll fill the holes later with epoxy). It's still in the 90's here in Arizona and even slow-cure epoxy dries fast here.