and that about finishes my part of the rebuild, Phil will take her home shortly and I'm sure enjoy the many hours of sanding the actual hulls that are about to happen..... and the season starts the 12th of October I think....


We certainly did a few things differently to what I've done previously and from what I can tell so far its has certainly added a significant amount of strength in the required areas and yet we did this whilst cutting out a very large amount of dead weight throughout the boat.
Both Phil and I have had some learning curves to overcome and many lengthy discussions were had on how to achieve the end result that we are both very happy with but only time will tell the whole story.
As for doing this process again I have to say yeah, it works and works well, perhaps a better choice in the sizes of some of the materials would be an advantage over what we had on hand to play with but largely the process went almost as we had planned it and even with a few surprises as to what and how much we could manipulate things to do what we were chasing.

The pneumatic air stapler was an advantage over my old manual stapler in its ease of use, the down side was it tended to over-drive the staples in a tad far, even with a low air pressure setting it either failed to work due to the low pressure or it went a tad to harder than I would have liked it to have, as to how you can regulate the pressure to that perfect point is going to take some time and practise..... I'll certainly be adding a pneumatic stapler to the tool box in the not to distant future



Its up to Phil & Al now, I'm sure they will either add new pics as the work goes ahead or they may send me the pics and I'll add then for your viewing pleasure....

as for me...... look out Tassie