: on this last trip. My yak paddles straight and well even thoiugh I don't
: bothered any longer with fairing out the epoxy smear patches on the
: underside of the hull.

LOL, I was looking at those smears and thinking, "I gotta sand or shave those off or else everybody will see what a messy job I did!" I did plane off the thicker areas but left the "stain" looking ones.

: So what are you thinking to build???

I am building a Merganser 16 from kit. Started on Oct. 14 or 15 and right now have the hull stitched. (I thought beveling was laborious; it pales next to carefully twisting wires, twisting wires, twisting wires...) Looks good to the eye and passed the "twist test" but this morning I'll check it more critically, then wire on the deck panels. But I gotta build some cradles for the deck, too -- I figured out if I make cradles and glue them to some flat pieces of wood sitting on the floor, I can work on the hull and deck in parallel, though I will have to crouch underneath the sawhorses (which are holding the hull) to work on the deck! It's a narrow room but I think this'll work.

Your posting of "Day __" progress is brave! I guess it provides some incentive to keep moving on it, huh? Public audience.

: You betcha sir!

Actually, it's "ma'am." My boyfriend, oops he's my husband now, looked at the hull and said, "Your beveling worked great." Now I'm afraid he'll want me to build him a boat, too ;-)