Congratulations on building a fine looking first boat. And good-on-ya for doing it at 65.

One of the things about living in Southern California is that the weather's almost never bad enough to force you indoors for building. My building projects always take longer than I think they will because I'm out paddling too much. I've decided to bite the bullet and build my first S&G this fall no matter how nice it is outside. I know that's not goint to get me a lot of sympathy from most of the people on this board but hey, some people have to live here, right?