Into the final straight with the finger-staining epoxy ...
Strip by strip, the bevilled wood strips are epoxied into place along the deck.
Bill having a morning cuppa.
The hull and its partially stripped deck.
Tony lending a hand with the refining of the storm paddle.
(Lucian providing his opinion of the noise.)
Sanding the whale bone plugs flush with the paddle blade.
At long last the deck is all stripped, epoxied and coarse-sanded. Yee-haa!
Time to fill about 300 nail holes.
Looking a little like a body painted up for a cooroboree.
The next step is to finely sand the deck's surface and then lay it up with fibreglass and resin.