All sounds Great. Glad to know you're building a boat designed to last, and put up with the various abuses the sport sometimes dishes out.
Yep, we will climb up on and then stand on the daggerboards, we will stand on the inside and outside of the hulls, and we'll run aground and into stuff with the daggerboards, too. Sometime we just fly through the air and crash our whole bodies on anything that happens to get between us and gravity.
I was asking about hull construction. I'm no engineer, just a monkey with a grinder that gets to fix broken stuff sometimes. You wonder what you're drilling into when we add and remove fittings, if it will hold the stress, will it create a leak or leave a big gaping hole when the fitting rips out. Many cats today are sandwich of glass around a foam layer, like my I-20, some sort of vinylester foam, sandwich hull construction. Supposedly light and strong, but more difficult to repair. Even our hotshot Glass man gets squeamish when working on foam sandwich hulls sometimes.
Also, while all of are concerned that our boats are light enough to race competitively, Only a fool would want to sail on an fragile boat if he's footing the bill for repairs.
Sounds like you're building a fast light boat that will stand up to the abuse we dish out.
Well Done! We needed that.
CARY