Christmas season is sailing season so if you do get here give us shout. You and your Admiral (that's what we call our wives) would be most welcome to messabout with us. The SB18 won't be ready by then, still need to pass my New Boat Fund Jar around a bit more, but we can lend you our club D5
... don't worry about it, there surely be enough boats to messabout in. Oh you'll love to build a boat here even more now. We've got "nearly BS1088" now and the laminating epoxy competetion is heating up so prices are going down. Glass is still as good as a monopoly but the prices are still very boatbuilder friendly. One thing though, I'm pretty sure you know this, OBs are still the BIG problem - absurdly high prices, so don't sell that one your keeping. I wouldn't worry too much about the OB getting stolen as not many people really use OBs here.
To keep us on topic, well I flipped the SB18 and I put on the inside fillets. Sunday morning I took my time sanding the fillets as I did not want to put the tape on while the temperature was rising. Mid-afternoon, I figured it would already be ok to start taping. Just to make sure I rechecked that the boat was still level and not really to my surprise she was not anymore. In an attempt to take a shortcut, it seemed like a good idea at first, I just relevelled the boat on the frames I used to turn her with - no strongback and I'm building on dirt. So I postponed the taping till I can build a soild strongback and be sure there'll be no twisting.
The problem now however is that there is little room to manuever the three boats not to mention build the strongback. I'll figure something out. Friday is a holiday here so I've an extra day of boat building.
Oh yeah the Farrier builder came over. He really likes the SB18 design. He asked if I was forming a class. My answer was I've a standing offer to host SB18s builds (CR13s too) as long as there is space in our yard. He mentioned building it in foam ... is that possible? The great thing is he also agreed to let me use their vacuum bagging facility for FREE! I'll have to do it on a Sunday so I don't get in the way of their production and just have to pay his guys that help me - fantastic!
