7-31 & 8-2.

With paint dry on the interior, it's time to scuff it up.  I did make the effort for the first time treading in the boat to take off my shoes, but that'll end the day we launch at an oyster shell riddled beach.  We sanded down the no skid a little too much I think (we had to try sanding it because it was so rough it would tear up skin and clothing), so it is a bit slippery, but there's still some grip.  

Putting in the port holes as I like to call them (inspection port is the technical term) was very difficult!  Especially the two tiny ones at the stern end (pictured above).  Below in the bow the port is much bigger, so I was able to stick a hand inside the hole to put on the washers and screw on the nut with one hand and plier inside the hole and the screwdriver on the outside.  Fortunately Daddy came home from work while I was putting these on and was able to help with the smaller ones.  My hand barely fits inside the smallest ones, so I had to delicately position my fingers with the nut over the end of the screw to get it started, then I held the nut with a socket wrench inside the hole while Daddy screwed from the outside. 

Then we attached various pulleys.  Below is the mainsheet block.  The way we attached it, it is removable so that we can get it out of the way for rowing.  Pull the loop of rope and the pin at the base unclips and the whole thing can be pulled to one side or the other with the boom to clear the center of the boat and the rowing seat (centerboard case).

Here is the centerboard set-up.  The pulley laying on the bottom of the boat (to the left) will be lashed to the nose of the centerboard that comes up and over the frame to the left of the picture.  Then the line comes down, through the pulley attached to the spine, back through the little hole in the frame (by the big circle opening), then up to the cleat in the photo below, where it is jammed to keep the centerboard up.  Then to lower the centerboard (which is weighted with lead), just unjam the line and it falls down.  

Tonight Daddy got ready to paint the gunnels.  We shall leave nothing to chance, or maybe we have learned to take all precautions against amateur paint mishaps as not to get burgundy paint on our previously painted surfaces that we went through so many troubles and coats to perfect!  And you can see that Daddy attached the belay pins for the mast (at the aft end of the deck).