3-16, and a lost and found.

This evening we drilled a hole in the foredeck for the mast.  It will have to be readjusted and shaped to properly hold the mast.  First we have to finish the trailer so we can get the boat back up there and put the mast up and down (too tall for the carport).  

 The hole saw wasn't quite deep enough to cut all the way through, so we had to go back with the sharp little knife to cut out the circle.

The plans actually call for a hole sort of like this for the mast to go through (not so close to the edge of the deck).  We did some practical redesigning to make rigging easier.  The hardest part of raising the mast when you have to get it through a hole is lifting it straight up the extra 2-3 feet to get the bottom through the hole in the deck - it is a tall, unwieldy lance.  So we decided to cut out the hole, open to the back so that the mast can be set into the mast step down below and then just pushed up to fit into the opening and lashed into place.  

Also preparing to finish the seats. 

These are some old pictures that I found and realized I had missed putting them up.  This was gluing the lug together.  You can see the plugs inside the long pieces of wood (where the patches of glue are); besides either end and where the lug will meet the mast, the lug is hollow.

We tied it together with copper wire and zip ties (because we were running out of wire).  The zip ties worked ok, but we couldn't tighten them nearly as well as the wire - everything is slippery with epoxy and the zip ties are difficult to grab and pull really tight around a square, whereas the wire can be twisted and tightened with pliers (careful not to break it though)!