End of October Update

On a personal note ... I dug out my 4 lb sleeping bag as it's getting cold again here.  Sure wish the boat was finished and I was in .... oh, say, Tahiti ! ! !  I absolutely refuse to turn on heat before November.  It's nice and warm during the day ... it's just cold at night.

I've done a lot of little things that you can't really see even my looking at pictures ... like filling screw holes, glassing the work bench top, cutting and fitting little corner supports.

I've also decided not to cut the top of the work bench for the bandsaw.  I don't use it that much and it takes up a lot of prime space.  It was different in my 33 ft motorhome as my work bench was almost 7 ft long.  It was a stand up work bench and I had much more room.  This is a 5 ft, sit down bench.  Deeper front to back but shorter.  I'll have to get used to sitting down at a work bench.

Today I fit in and installed the largest peice of insulation yet.  The peice behind the stbd settee.  With this in I can so on up the hull with oak stripping and fit in the settee deck boards.  It also gives me a line for glassing in the stbd water storage tank.  That's the bare hull area you see lower right in the picture.

I also completed the wood work in the storage cabinet behiind the dinette.