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White beauty update photo

Photo taken this morning in our backyard.
Were now working on the floors and floor soles.   Next: seats and coaming.  We also have to finish off the side decks.  Theres also the rail and toe rail to fit, to finish off the side decks.
The white paint is just an undercoat, to waterproof in case of rain.  Final colour scheme will be British Racing Green on hull, cream inside and trim in the green, similar to John Brookes boat, above.  Will probably leave the front deck in white.
Then... to make the mold for the lead keel and cast it, at the Yacht Club.
Floor frames and fillers, now fixed in.  Next is floor cleats and floor beams,
then scribe and install the sole. That big lump of wood in the middle is
Batu (chao mu), a kind of Chinese mahogany, which will be trimmed
and shaped to be the top of the centreboard trunk, with a hole for the
centreboard lanyard.
UPDATE (19 Jan):
Floor frames and fillers installed
I decided not to screw the Floor Frame battens in by screw from below (as per the book), because Im concerned about any through-hull fasteners (flexing could lead to leaks methinks..).  Instead we put in extra fillers, made from left-over marine ply stock from the planks.  We ground back the paint to make sure the epoxy and epoxy putty held.  They seem to be pretty solid.  Now for the floor beams and then the soles, which were going to make with the 4"x 3/4" Douglas Fir cut to 2". 

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