It turns out to have been one of those bad weeks I’ve heard about in boat building. I guess I assumed I would run into one, but it was brutal. The two hull halves weren’t lined up as well as I needed them to be, and I had already glassed the center line. I had to spend 8 hours grinding 3 layers of 1708 fiberglass into dust (also known as pounds of tiny shards of glass). I’m very grateful for a hooded tyvek suit and a good respirator, but I still got a lot of it ground into my writs and a few uncovered spots on my face. I’m also grateful that Heather spent the next day with the shop vac cleaning out the shop while I continued work on the bulkheads. It all ends well; I was able to get everything all lined up and it will work fine, but it was a tiring setback. I’m going up alone this weekend to finish some of the things I was hoping to get done this past week. I usually don’t have specific goals for my weeks up at the shop, but I really want to get to the port hull on my next trip in august, so I’m going to try to crank through more of the starboard hull bulkheads. More to follow in a few days, but for now, all my tools are up at the shop and I’m taking a break.
I need a break to vaccum my face.
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