Thanks for the advice. I took off one of the decks, and it seems whoever made the hulls did a great job. I considered the option of building new hulls, but I'm pretty much dedicated to building the Fulmar at the moment, and what I want to do with this is rescue an old Mozzie. That way there'll be one less rotting in someones backyard, as I read on one of the forums or something.

So I'm not worrying about minimum weight, but instead I'm going to focus on getting a really nice finish. At this stage she'll have a bright finish on the decks, once I've replaced them with new gaboon, and a (hopefully striking) two colour hull using two-pack paint. I had some fun with photoshop a while back playing around with designs. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Thanks again! And I hope the Nationals are going well!