A few weeks of hectic activity!

Visible changes to the boat are not very evident - even after nearly a month since the last posting...

Korea on business for 2 weeks plus the 24 hours of travel on each end, certainly reduced the amount of time available - here are some highlights (from a tourist standpoint - no pictures of how to refine Indium which was the purpose of the visit):

See a temple:

Eat strange and unusual foods such as tiny raw octopuses:

Pass on even stranger foods such as sauteed silk worms (sold on the street next to roasted chestnuts - will we ever see this on the streets of New York? Also to the left of the worms are boiled fish pancakes on a stick - which I did try).

That brought us right up to the holiday week and getting the house ready for party of 37 - but we did manage some fairly major steps.

Glued and filleted the transoms on.  Filleting - pronounced fill-it, not as in in mignon - is a process of gluing and filling joints with epoxy that has been thickened with wood flour (essentially sawdust).  This was a fearful step - it seems that there is much written about the topic, and certainly the photos we have seen have been very varied.  It seems that the trick is to get a nice strong smooth fillet - without it looking too heavy or wide.  Bad fillets result in a lot of hard hand sanding to smooth out properly.  We ended up pretty happy with the results:

It was then time to temporarily install the bulkheads.  Jim 'North' visiting from Halifax was very helpful in getting these positioned, held and stapled into place:

This ensures that the boat is in the proper shape - time to flip it over and start gluing the strakes - after the strakes are glued into place, staples come out, looking a little more fair here:

Don't worry; although the above picture looks like we had a catastrophic table failure - this is actually showing the transformation of the tables from workbench height - to the appropriate height to work on the assembled boat - here we are trimming the other legs:

Time to fillet the the strake seams - taped and ready to go:

Finished product:

Flipped back over - with the furniture test fitted:

Nest week - another scary step - fiber glassing!!!