Havn't posted for a long time. First the process of sanding, fairing, glassing will not bring many presentable pics cause you won't see much of progress from far. Second writing into my PC is not my favourite.

But nevertheless there are a few things to report:

During our summer holidays at the baltic we saw the Hansekogge "Wisemara" passing by. (http://www.poeler-kogge.de/)
Unfortunately I had only my mobile with me - sorry for the quality of the photo.

My son varnished his spars and started sewing sails

 I attached stem and stern using epoxy and 8'' long stainless steel screws

 After glassing and sanding we came to the next interesting part of the job. I have been building upstairs until now. My carpenter-friend has been very patient with me but he needs the space now. Second the height of the room was not enough to turn the hull there so I had to move it.
Last weekend I rented a "telescope fork-lifter", asked several friends and went for the adventure.
We used the fork-lifter like crane with help of my rock-climbing equipment and got the hull down without damage. Just my strongback (rubbish-made) was obviously not strong enough for this kind of force and fell apart. Saved a bit time of demounting.
I expected the hull beeing about 300 kg (something like 600 lbs) but turning it over was easily made by 4 of us without any effort. Now it is sitting on it's trailer, waiting for the new home..

 

Been off for circumnavigation of Ruegen-island

While the fairing process needs longer than I expected, I went off for sailing.

On a rented folkboat we started in Altefähr for circumnavigation of the island of Ruegen (german Rügen). Had a great time sailing, gunkholing, fishing and seeing all the nice places from the water where I have been walking and biking many times before. 

Further I used the time to study several construction details at the wooden folkboat. Maybe something is worth copying? E.g. the builder used Tufnol-strips for protection of mechanically stressed wooden edges (cockpit-coaming, parts of the footrail near the clamps etc.) - looks good and works well.

After all I made a strange experience: When I had the same boat 6 or 7 years ago, sailing in a similar area, it was quite normal to sail a 24 ft-boat. But times they are a changing and boats seem to grow. We've been asked several times by other sailers if it isn't dangerous beeing on a small boat like this on the open sea??? But the boat has not been shrinked? And wasn't there a Blondy Hasler crossing the Atlantic in a folkboat?

But maybe the ability (read money) to by a big boat has no good influence on sagacity?

Nevertheless we've had a very good time, lots of sun, wind 3-6 bft, just ideal conditions.

Stripping complete

Last week I finished stripping. The last maybe 15 strips had very much twist and took their time. Started sanding and fairing yesterday. Removing all the screws took several hours. After that my belt sander, 60grit paper and a vacuum cleaner did a fine job. This will be the task for the next days.

Centerboard case and skeg glued. Stripping about half complete.

Here are the last news from the boat-shop.
After getting our 4th child in Dezember I had other pleasures than boatbuilding. But I had  at least a few hours in the shop and some progress. I spent some hours to rip all the strips I will need. The centerboard case is ready for gluing in and some strips are on. I glued a short piece of 1" stainless steel tube into the pinholes of the centerboard and the case and got a matching rod, tight fitting into the tube.