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Painting inside.

Primer


And gray paint.  This is the special mis-tint I got cheap.  I call it "Greywater Gray".  Sounds boaty, doesn't it? ;-)

Some more detail work:

First Passenger!


Oarlock pads


Test fits





New perspectives that I've gained from building this boat:





Nitpicky bits

Marking the waterline.  Out of the basement, 10 mile in a pickup, into a swimming pool then back to the basement.

Faithful moving crew-





Basement looks kinda empty without a boat in there:


Trevor demonstrates:


And in the water.  I still can't believe that it's right side up AND level!






And back into the basement for painting and more bits:

It's nice to see you're in baldness denial, just like me. Don't "pods" float just sweet and with that crew aboard, still lots of freeboard and a stable ship.

Haha! I think you must mean Robert (pink shirt) or Jim (hat and sunglasses).

And yes, I am genuinely surprised that the boat that I built floated with the stem dead plumb and not cocked over to one side!  That head on pic makes me feel like I'm somewhere in the Bahama's. 

I couldn't convince Pawpaw to get in if Grandma was in at the same time to make five crew members, but I'm pretty sure 6 could float with no problems. Plenty of freeboard for those giant breakers on Melton Hill Lake. 

While the boat is in the basement:

Streamlining the keel (shoulda done this a long time ago).




Finishing out the stem bands.  Still need to shape and polish them a bit, plus add my boweyes. The sqiggly line is the rough waterline marked on the trip to the swimming pool.

Make sure you add some up sweep to the ends of the waterline. This will make it look much better and help hide trim differences when loaded with more weight at one end.

Thanks!

Just as an FYI, I got my oars today from Chesapeake Light Craft.  I labored over whether to buy oars from CLC or from Barkley Sound, which gets good reviews for being a less pricey alternative to Shaw and Tenney.  Turns out I had no need to worry:



These things look like they were dipped in heavy varnish though,  at least a 1/16 thick coating and big drips at ends.  I think that I'm going to just remove as much of this stuff as I can and replace it with Danish Oil.  At least I'm going to get the varnish off the handles.

Any thoughts?

I've seen them made and they are dipped in a big drum of varnish. I wouldn't oil them, though stripping and finishing them better is a good idea. I'd cut the tips off and epoxy them back on or replace the tips with a hardwood or full thickened epoxy tip. I'd also varnish them properly and use leather or nylon or something on the grips.

Changed my mind for now about the bottom paint.  After a lot of staring and thinking and fiddling around with masking tape, I just don't see that a separate bottom color will significantly improve the look of this boat.  Might change my mind back later, but for now, I'm sticking with just two colors on the outside, one on the inside (plus brightwork).