Almost-A-SCAMP Progress Report #2-10 . . . .

[Charles Brennan]

Filleted the underside of the cabin roof doubler.
Every time I look at these kinds of pics, I get mildly depressed    at all the sanding I should have done already, and all the sanding I still have yet to do. 
Ah, well. 
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The aft doubler fillet looked much better. 
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While I was still in a Filleting Frenzy, I did the entire hull-to-deck-joint fillet along both sides.
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Lighting under an upside down boat was about what you'd expect,    but this should give some idea of how it looked in there.

This pic was a little better, aided by light entering the trolling motor bulkhead connector hole.
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This side, not so much. 
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I had originally intended to fillet all the various doublers on the foot well cover with leftover dribs and  drabs from filleting the underside of the cabin roof and deck.
Didn't happen.
Each fillet batch just about did  the section I intended, so I needed a dedicated fillet batch, to fillet the foot well cover.
Initial application:
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And after smoothing with a Nitrile gloved finger, dipped in alcohol. 
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And after some sanding and applying the first coat of EZ-Prime primer paint.
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First coat of spray paint on the inside of the fore deck after the fillets installed by my Grandson, were well cured.  There was NO WAY on this Earth, for me to get in there with a paint roller and brush, so spray paint it was, no matter HOW Hideously Expensive. 
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And the cuddy cabin.
(That I COULD reach with a brush!) 
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And finally got around to priming the veranda.
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The next day, after some sanding I was able to apply the first coats of top coat paint, a Hatteras Cream.
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I confess, I felt a rising excitement,    to see the final colors finally being applied to the cabin.

Also realized I had plenty of pieces/parts laying around hither and yon, that were just waiting for a coat of primer.
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So I hit them too, while I was at it.
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DOHHH!!!! 
Forgot to add the compass mounting plate to the pile, yesterday! 
(Always one more piece than you think, hiding somewhere.) 
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So I got that done, along with side two of everything else.
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One problem to be solved, was how to keep straight the port light frames that were custom fitted to each side, after painting. 
I had them labeled Port and Starboard with a laundry marker, but primer and paint was going to cover that up.
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So I stamped an identifying letter on the inside of the port light ring. 

That should work! 
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BTW, the letter also denotes the top of the ring.
I also wanted to do this as an experiment, to get an idea of what the stamped characters will look like, when I install the HIN on the transom. 

And the third coat on the veranda! 
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About the last thing I had to do, before turning the hull back over.

Or, so I thought . . . . 
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I had scraped the hull back in July, lowering the boat onto the trailer and misjudged the trailer fender height. 
That really needed to be touched up, before inverting the hull again.

In addition, the hull had gotten pretty gundgy over the past year.
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GEEZE!!    Boat's never even been IN the water and it STILL needs a good washing!! 
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Ah, well.  Nothing for it, but to wash the hull down.
At least, being 2/3 the size of Urchin, it took really no time at all, to wash. 
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Dry thoroughly and then touch up the dings.
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Like it never happened! 

While I was at it, I taped off some areas where I had some previous paint/tape bleed-through on the water line and touched them up, as well.
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And since I had the paint out anyway, it was time to fix some dings on the center board, suffered while banging around in the garage, for the past year.
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OK, NOW it's time to turn the hull over! 
And definitely NOT the time or the place, for a loose shoelace!! 
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Exploited gravity and leverage this time around, by lowering the hull onto a sawhorse on one side, to tilt the hull. 
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Worked good! And with FAR less effort, this time around!! 
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Last time (hopefully!)    the hull will ever get flipped.
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Now I can get cracking on several different tasks, with several of them, concurrent tasks
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I feel like I've gone from thousands of simple tasks, and worked my way down, to hundreds of simple tasks!! 
And REALLY looking forward to the LAST task!! 

Charles Brennan

[Chris Muthig]

Lookin like a boat!!!

[Frank B.]

The "Last Task" is a mythical creature.