Coming Together

Nearly a month has gone by since the last update and the summer is already flying by. I've lost another chum to cancer since this started and it does lend a sense of urgency to 'doing it while one still can'.

Anyway this is another exciting update, it's been tricky sorting all the fixing points and making certain that the swinging pole swivel works and that the racks won't dig in. They're a little wider than I'd first planned, but that is due at the moment to the expediency of using B14 bits I'm going to guess.

You can see the preparations for the internals and the raising points of the racks and the whole craft is beginning to look a whole lot more racier, it's definitely going to have enough righting moment for my weight, which at the end of the day was the whole deal.

I can see this thing maybe being able to be sailed flat and bang the corners planing like a Formula Board on certain types of water. I can't wait to get on it, with any luck we may even be getting it wet this weekend according to Jamie, although I must admit it doesn't even look close, but then he knows what he's doing.

Just looking at that plan view, it must be 3m 20 wide by the look of it rack to rack, that's going to take some moving across, but then us small folk are nothing if not quick and needs must when the devil drives..