I think it's day 4, or maybe day 5, whatever. The goal is to finish the thing by the 31st. Today was the second sort of full day working on the yak. We released the clamps of the scarfed and joined pieces, finsih sanded the scarf faces of the panel that we had to disassemble last night and wash the glue off, then we regled those joints, clamping them onto the assembly table for 24 hours for the Titebond II to cure. Meanwhile, Paul J came by to look at the work to date and say hi. Of course I was wired on coffee and yakked a while and then followed him over to his house to look at his Dancing Waters yak...and a nice job he's doing, too. Returning, Dave and I tried out an experiment using spray adhesive onto the plans to stick them onto the okoume. Well, I'm hear to tell everyone that it works about as well as a screen door being a gas tank. Using the jig saw to deleicately and precisely cut the forms guides out the damn paper would vibrate and shake, curl, twist and the like. The places where it did stick it really stuck, requiring a razor to remove the glue and paper from the okoume.
Since we're the hangout, Wild Bill came by and gave us a hand for a while before he ventured off to the local metal supply warehouse. It was good to catch up with Bill; he was trying to get us out to go paddle, failing that he recounted his progress on a hardwood rowing frame for rubber dingies. The guy is amazing, whether it's a dinky rubber ducky to a Cal 28 sailboat, he has to row or paddle it.
Tomorrow the plan is to mark and cut the major hull and deck components out of the assebled plywood sheets. Tonight I spent time to redeign front and rear hatches. The rear hatch, gasket support ring and hinge mount support for the NH; the rear hatch will mimic in a smaller size the cockpit, yet have the ability to swallow sleeping bags and large gear. The front hatch I'm agonizing over right now. Another thing will be searching early for thinner gauge steel wire (thinking 22-24 gauge) to stitch the hull together versus the thicker 18 gauge copper wire.

so that's it tonight...on track for the deadline.