Back in the saddle again!

Wow! I cannot believe it has been almost two months since I last worked on the Paper Jet! I guess that is what  happens when you decide to buy a new (to me) sailboat out of the blue! I have been spending way to much time getting that boat up to snuff and have neglected the poor Paper Jet! Well this weekend it was time to change that.

The mission right now is to get the topside ready to epoxy and then finish. A few things have to happen in order to accomplish this.

Firstly I cut out the foot rests and the doublers for the wings where a couple of cleats attach.

I also cut out the spacers for the deckside dagger board locker and proceeded to find out that the dagger board did not want to fit through the spacers that I had previous epoxied to the bottom of the hull! (It is amazing what happens when you add several coasts of epoxy to stuff! They grow!) This necessitated doing some sanding on the dagger board and also on the hull spacers! I wasnt able to resolve the entire issue this weekend but it was getting close. I think it is time to start sanding down the dagger board for finishing so that I have the final size figured out.

I also spent a fair amount of time doing the initial sanding on the deck although I still have a fair amount of detail sanding to go. There is definitely a lot more nooks and crannies on the deck vs. the hull!

I finished up this weekend by epoxying the foot rests and piling a whole bunch of weight on it so that they would lay flat!

All in all a weekend of miscellaneous tasks where not a whole lot got accomplished but there was forward progress!