I glued the center board case with bedding and glued and screwed frame  # 5 to hold every thing in place ..

I glued and fastened # 3 ,2 and 1 in that order for no reason except that that's the way I wanted to do it. I added the listings to the centre girder  .

just a different angle . at this point I have placed 1 through 5 . There are lots of small jobs I am going to have to finish soon such as filling all the screw holes and sanding ... I still need to finish the centre board .It still needs a couple more coats of resin and I need to finish the lifting bracket ..  The holes are all drilled and aliened properly so I know it goes together . I might have to jack the boat up a bit to get it in later but I think it will be a lot easier to handle moving the boat around without the heavy centre board in

Today is my last day working on my boat before I head up north diving again for the winter...I haven't been able to get at the boat much in the last few weeks . Today I finished installing all the frames transom ... You can see in the picture that I still need lots of filling in screw holes and lots of filleting .

The pathfinder looks pretty big . I put a batten on to see if it looked fair and I think it looks pretty good...

Now I get to not only miss my family for a few months but miss working on my boat by myself with my talk radio in my really pleasant building area .

I not only ran out of time but I also used up all my wood and all the necessary extra funds to buy the wood so I need to go diving.

When I get back I will get some clear fir and install the stringers and some more 9mm to start planking ....

my last  web page installment for a few months

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