Brass tubes installed

I am jumping ahead in the boats process to group these blogs together. At this point I have already glassed the hull. When I got to the drain holes I made an "X" cut and folded the glass in the hole. I then let the epoxy dry and sanded any rough spots. When I was done with the first fairing I add filler to the fairing to make a paste. I then installed the brass tubes.
Here is a look after sanding.

Drain plug holes

Find the location you want the drain plug. I always try to drill parallel to the bottom plywood.
I usually use a hole saw but this time I wanted to try something different. I wanted to drill the hole over sized and fill it in with epoxy and filler when I glassed the boat.
Here you can see how I try to leave a hairs worth of the transom wood between the hole and the bottom.
Drilled out. This process always makes me nervous.
Perfect. Now do the other side of the keelson. Yes there is 2.

many pictures in between but here is the bottom of the hull.

With the epoxy and graphite coating

Installing the butt blocks

take half the width of the butt block and make marks.
Put the butt block in it location and mark both sides to get angle of cut.
glue
press it in place and screw. Don't over tighten the screws for now. when the glue sets go back and sink screws. this will insure the you don't squeeze all the glue out.

Okay Time to fair it down.

unfaired
faired
unfaired
faired
Use a belt sander and smooth all the corners and seams

A few pictures to hold you over.

I have a ton of new photos but here are some outside.

Boat builders time.

I guess at this point it must be said/written that building a boat is like making wine. It just doesn't happen overnight. I am looking at the dates of my posts and wondering how so much time has past since I started. I doesn't surprise me anymore. I is just part of the process.