The build goes on! It's been a bit strange after the roll over. I think all of my focus was on achieving the roll over successfully and I hadn't really been thinking about how I'd progress immediately after that. Consequently, it's taken me a couple of weeks to get on track for the build again. I think (hope!) I've done that now and that we're progressing sensibly again. Anyhow, despite this weirdness, I think I rather like this video. Hope you do too!!

Basically, the raised deck beams are faired up now, I do an initial fair on the coachroof sides and fit the clamps/stringers around the coachroof/raised deck top, we mill the lumber for the stringer/shear clamp extension and start to fit that, ensuring that the angles of that will give a smooth flow to the combings that will attach to it at some later point...

It's back to boatbuilding this week after the big roll over. It took a while to get everything straight and back together, get the boat set up level and tidy up a bit, but then thoughts turned to the coachroof/raised deck. The stringers that run around the top of the coachroof sides are currently in progress. This involves ensuring that all of the deck beams are running true.

Well, we did it! On Saturday we pulled her out of the shed and flipped her over so she's now the right way up! I'm posting the video of it all below; photos will come in a later post. Phew!

And here's the video of the sheathing process of the hull sides. She's all done now, had an extra coat of epoxy to fill the weave and is ready for the roll over!

The hull is basically sheated and watertight now. Here are a few pics in a slideshow :-)

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This week is all about sheathing the hull in fibreglass cloth in epoxy. It's not really a job that I enjoy, but it is important to get it right ie. get the cloth down nice and flat with no air bubbles in it. So, I prepped it all up, opened the doors wide to get maximum air flow through the shed and set to it. See what you think.

I'll also be posting a whole stack of photos here soon