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Had a bit of a backward movement last week ("Yikes"), when I found that the two layers of the Keelson had come apart in places.  This was due to only putting on Epoxy resin, and not putting on Epoxy putty.  Ive learnt the lesson on that. Had to break it apart and re-glue properly.

Glue-ing the Keelson, second time around.  The trick here to avoid this is to put on epoxy liquid, then thicken it with thickener to make it putty then put the putty on thick so that it seeps out when you tighten it with screws. To be fair to John Brooks, the designer, and his Book, he does say this. Just that somehow I d ignored it... If youre building one of these: dont ignore this!

Mate Dan Kennedy, lives in Birmingham, spends 1/3 his time there, 1/3 in Perth with one daughter and 1/3 here with another daughter. Were swimming mates.  He left for UK last week.  Back next June.

Well, after regluing the Keelson it seemed fine, and we managed to get the first two boards on. Now on the fourth

A "dory gain" at the inner stem. End bits still need to be trimmed off.