Bow sprit in place

More accomplished: Longitudinal went into the bow section, bonded and taped, 'floor' on top of that, also bonded and taped. Starting to feel really solid in that area now. Bow sprit support tube bonded in place, now needs a good rub down and clean-up after my messy filling. Support tube needs taping in next.

The aft bonding was heaps neater as there was more room to work in.

We had to run a new centre line to position the sprit. We extend the sprit all the way out and clamped in place as the bonding cured. It's damn close to perfect, I might add.

As we're now going to have an adjustable forestay, (this should give us more control of the rig as we've no backstay) we need to concentrate a little more on more structure in the bow area. The support tube will help for the compression loads we're expecting.

More to follow as we're about to start on the casing for the fin. We are moulding it from glass over the fin itself as the mould, this should be interesting, watch this space.....................