Progress has slowed a lot in the last few weeks.  Basically I got sick and my clients got restless.  I have only been able to work in the shop an hour or two each day with a bit more on weekends.  Although my energy level was and is way down, I am trying to get at least some small tasks done each day.


This shows all the fairing applied to the vaka.  Now the fun starts.  Imagine sanding all this down in the heat of the day, wearing a mask, and coughing your lungs out the whole time.  Although the fairing compound went on easy, sanding it off was not so easy - but it never is.


After sanding it looked like this.  Pretty ugly huh.  If I had more time and energy, I'd make another pass with more fairing compound and another sanding job.  Fairing a hull for show quality can easily take a week or more.  I decided that this was good enough.


This is after the primer was applied.  The hull looks pretty good at this point.  Yes, there are lots of imperfections because I didn't do a second pass of fairing, but she'll do!

While the primer was drying I did a bit of work on the second ama.  I installed the decks. 


I used a combination of straps and dumbbells to hold the deck in place.  This one had a bit of a problem right at the end of the stern.  I was trying to avoid using any screws or nails to hold the deck down, but I was not 100% satsified with the results.  I may use copper ring nails for the vaka deck.


Both amas are fully decked at this point.  All that is left is to make the aka attachments, varnish, and install the deck rigging.  That white line just below the deck is the sanded edge of the glass tape for the deck to hull seam.  That will disappear after the final finish coat and varnish is applied.

        

 

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