Fun weekend. We had 400mm/16" of rain in the river catchment area and a particularly high tide. Result was a knee deep flood through the shed and ankle deep mud to clean up. Not much fun as the floor is lower than the surrounding land. Fortunately, one of the infusers came down at 4 am and lifted most of my stuff off the floor. Only lost a tired old jigsaw and a vacuum cleaner. Everything that got wet has a layer of mud on it and a very difficult to remove film of oil.

However, I finally got all the bulkheads and other stuff (lower bearing, locking mechanism, foam bows) in the lee hull and closed up the three sections. Looks pretty good. Certainly a quick and easy technique and the result is fair with very little filling required, except to fix my errors. Learnt heaps, next one will be hugely quicker. Have not had to use any building frames, string lines or levels so far, except to check that what should have been happening, was.

There are some new photos in Solitarry 2 Build and I have relegated some of the less interesting ones to a second folder. Updated hours (150 so far)/costs ($AUS13,000)/weight spreadsheet is in Files. I have removed the tasks which were not successful, or didn't work out from the spreadsheet. Items like the mast bearing mould, the hooks to hold the hulls together, etc.

The rudder tubes will be infused tomorrow, should have an idea of what the rudder set up looks like next week. Also ordered the cnc cut mdf formers for the rudders and mast, but these, and maybe the beam won't be infused until the new table is completed. Plenty to do in the meantime.

Katy keen to ride to school and back on her own now so I should get an extra hour a day. Hopefully progress will happen a bit quicker.

regards,

rob

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