Mike, Thomas, and Scott wheeled and dealed the hulls up the front steps and through the back gate.  We then popped the cross beams and mast step on and proceeded to envision the summer.  We mocked up the rudders and tillers (the latter may need to be shortened a bit), experimented with mock-oars and forcole while standing on the stern, and sampled various positions and rakes of the mast.

In the subsequent week, Scott leveled and aligned the hulls and marked the beam and socket positions.  Liam and Cora and many friends ran the hulls and beams through a gauntlet of tests, including high-speed beam balancing, sleeping bag quiet times, diverse skirmishes, and even bunking in hammocks (I found Cora resting within a gear hammock!).

On 4/8 Scott and Mike put a layer of glass on the 2nd side the rudders.  Then on 4/13 Thomas and Scott routed out and drilled the areas on the rudder where they will be lash-hinged to the hull.

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Liam and Oliver scratched their heads about how to keep a mast from kicking out.  Then they lined up and began to drill a hole through the upper two planks.  Stymied by lack of power drill energy, the spent some time sanding the of the madrona forks that Scott and Liam found up on San Juan Island last week.

Luke smooths a rudder

Scott and Mike started the final sanding of the final beam.  We were joined by Luke and Drew and together we finished the sanding in ~45 minutes.  Then Luke and Scott sanded down the 2 coats of epoxy on the tillers while Thomas helped Mike and Drew figure out the proper placement and size of the rudder/tiller “notch.”

After Luke orbital-sanded one of the rudders a bit, he headed home with Drew.  Thomas also retreated after generously sharing his latest brew — a slippery stout with overtones of Jaegermeister.  Mike and Scott glassed the second side of the rudders.  Finally, Scott finished up the mast step, at least the hole saw work and gluing up of the 3 plank-layers.

Young Luke and hull