We'll hopefully here are the last pre gelcoat pictures for the outside of the boat. We have been doing lots of fairing this week, making lots of dust, long boarding, orbital, all of the above. Every time we make the fairing compound, we add different amounts of blue tint to the gelcoat/microbeads, so that we can tell what is good. After we sand, we got around with our hands and a pencil, circle the spots where there are still pin holes or imperfections, add more fairing compound, then sand it down again. To get the boat a little higher, we realized we can lift it up with just two people and then the Crab sticks some blocks under it, so we can fair it without it being on the ground. You can see the blocks in this picture:
And then with the boat on an angle, I got some better inside pictures
The whole thing is really close, we still have to do the door jambs on the interior, so we have decided to paint the outside first.
And then for fun, and kind of to show off either how light the boat is, or how strong Harold is (probably not a good idea to laugh at his pink outfits while he's around
) here's a 15 second video of him squating the hull: