Started the hatch boards this week. Got off to a rough start though. I had made templates of both the fore and aft hatch boards before I left last July. However, I had thought that I made the template of the hatch frame and it wasn’t till I finished the drawings twice before I remembered that I made the templates off of the temporary hatch boards. 4 hours in SketchUp blown. Bought the hatch board wood on Friday and started to cut them to size before I realized that I didn’t know which way the template faces, therefore I don’t know how to cut the gutter between boards. Suck. Guess I’ll bring them up to Halifax and finish them there.

Amy and I started gluing the lower planks on the dingy. Amy did a really good job with the epoxy, using a plastic spoon to do the fillets. The spoon is the trick. Anyway, the plank was a great fit and next I’ll fiberglass the seams.