Sneak preview. The last couple days have been a sandorama. I got the stems installed and shaped to match the hull and then I started wearing out sheets of sandpaper. When the hull split in multiple places in the process of getting it off of the form I glued them all back together and that left a lot of glue residue on the hull. I had already sanded the hull smooth but the dried glue caused me to have to go back over the whole thing. That plus shaping the stems made for a lot of hours of sanding.

I ordered the 6 oz. cloth this week and I will be able to take advantage of the warm weather we're having and get the cloth on the hull soon. When you wet out the cloth with resin there is a push and pull between the cloth and the wood for the resin. If the balance isn't right you can end up with a weak spot or a light colored blemish in the finish. I coat the hull in advance and sand that coat smooth before I drape the cloth on the hull. Then all of the resin that I brush onto the cloth is used by the cloth.