11-14.

We worked on the rudder, rudder stock, tiller, and hull yesterday.  

Glued the rudder together - red cedar and curly maple.  We had to make an emergency trip to Brian's last week to straighten up our strips of red cedar.  They weren't square because of the old, sagging saw that we used to rip them.  Fortunately, we were able to run both sides of each piece of wood through a table saw to square them up.  Then they finally fit together tightly, although the rudder might be a tiny bit narrower than called for in the plans... but we're really good at adapting and changing the plans by now!

I don't know why I am so utterly unamused by the soon-to-be rudder!  It's going to be a beauty!
(It could be the mosquitoes - they're really good at biting my neck when I have epoxy-covered gloves on, it's like they know I can't slap them.  But I cannot complain about two or three mosquitoes in November because it is much better than freezing my fingers and toes in Minnesota).

Filling the holes in the rudder stock with epoxy.  There will be a steel tube with a bolt in it here to act as a pivot for the rudder to move up and down.  Just like we did with the centerboard, this prevents any wood-water contact because we'll drill the hole for the tube through the epoxy.

Here is one of our rookie mistakes - when we put together the tiller, we forgot that the base fits into a 25mm gap in the rudder stock (the width of the piece of maple).  We glued the outside pieces of cedar all the way to the back end of the tiller, then realized that we had to get rid of that cedar.  Fortunately, we have a Japanese hand saw, which is awesome.  We just cut of the blocks of cedar, and once the rudder stock is together, we can sand the base of the tiller to fit in.  

We also cut out the blocks of maple that are spacers inside the rudder stock (wood that separates the two pieces of cedar so that the tiller and rudder can fit in between).  We sanded the tiller more - giving it nice rounded edges to make it more comfortable and nicer looking, and painted it with liquid epoxy - it is so pretty now!  And we sanded, washed, and epoxied the hull again.