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Cool weather now in Texas. I plan to pick up progress on the hull build. I have some time off here at the end of the year but I have been doing some CNC machining and have a big job for the HB2.

Just a little planking left on the Dauntless hull then comes the finish smoothing and the fiber-glassing. My Miapoxy is here!

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A Hull of a Job

More work on planking the forward part of the hull. This is the part of the work where the builder has to force wood to go where it doesn’t want to go. There are no instructions on how to do this other than the info page says, “…install in alphabetical order. A,B,C”. Interestingly there are 6 parts “C”.

Well I seem to be doing OK after one false start. There is some trimming of the wood to make it fit this far along. The idea, at least for me is to find a way to route the wood for minimal stress in bending.

It’s those curves that make boat hulls so alluring.