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Got little done this weekend. The nerve of my wife thinking Mothers
Day takes precedence. However, did a little fairing of epoxy on #1
and put one side on #2. Bought a wood plane and shaped the
daggerboard of #1.

Am now leaning toward polytarp sails because I cannot get Tyvek in
great enough width and am not sure of joining pieces.

I keep finding air bubbles under the fibreglas I applied to the edges
so I keep grinding them out and filling them with epoxy. The
fibreglas seems to have been a mistake because the adhesion of the
fibreglas resin to the wood is very poor.
Found that the rudder boxes I made are twisted so I cut them apart and
reglued them between two cement blocks so they cannot twist.
No progress on #2 yesterday.

Picked up mast material today. It is 2' diameter and 1/8" wall. This
may be too heavy for the 2 booms for the lateen rig but seems ok for
the mast.

Assembled the rudder assembly last night. By trimming on the rudder,
I managed to get it to flip up much farther than originally.

Nearly ready to paint #1

No progress on #2

For sails, I have looked at Tyvek and although I dont mind putting a
sail together from 2 9' wide pieces, it has big TYVEK letters on it.
Polytarps are an option but color may be an issue but I still have to
look at Wal mart. Visqueen is always an option.