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Avast there she'll float - a hull! 

Gooping on the glue.  Of course we ran out of 406 silica after starting to glue, so we had to switch to 405 (the chocolaty icing) which is supposed to be for filleting (see the white vertical line of epoxy running the length of the spine where the frame and spine meet - that's a fillet).  There's no stopping once you've gotten started, and you have to work fast before the glue dries - tonight we were finishing clean-up and filling in countersunk screw holes with really really viscous epoxy.  When the port bow chine panel springs a leak we can blame it on the 405 silica.
 

Tonight was a bittersweet evening.  These are the last views we'll have of the innards of the boat from this angle.   

 From here on out she'll look like a Boat!

So as you may have noticed in the previous post, the boat has already looked like this during the dry fit.  Everything was all lined up and fitting pretty (pretty sloppy, but what good is epoxy for but to fill all those gaps!)  Anyhow, as we screwed down the last chine panel, all of a sudden the pre-drilled holes in the plywood weren't matching up with the holes in the stringers below.  Which meant that the plywood panel wasn't lining up with the bottom or side panels, or with the other chine panel at the bow.  This was a problem - the bow especially needs to line up so the boat isn't totally off-centered!  We managed to get the holes to line up with Daddy putting lots of pressure on the plywood while I quickly screwed it down hole by hole, progressing forward, checking that the screw holes lined up with a loose drill bit.  Still the bow didn't line up.  Fortunately, without even unscrewing anything, Daddy was able to shave off enough wood from the front end of the chine panel with the circular saw to make it squeeze into place at the bow.  Whew. 

And here is the nicely fitted bow!  Once the epoxy mess is all sanded and shaped and fiberglassed, it'll look like a streamlined, well-constructed bow, worthy of a ship's figurehead. 

Here's a shot of the skeg - the brass strip hasn't been attached yet, but will be soon.  There is much sanding ahead of us, and then fiberglassing, and then I think, just maybe, we'll finally flip this boat over and start work on the seats and deck and everything else on the insides!