This blog was not continued for a long time - but between building a new family house, a new business, moving the boat shop twice I finished at least some important steps.

After moving the first time I worked in a winter storage for caravans and boats. There I faired the inside with a simple selfmade "boat-plane" - just bought a cheap wooden plane and radiused the sole and the iron. It worked perfect. 

The temporary chip-board bulkheads were changed into the real plywood ones, using the first as molds to trace the pencil around. The bulkheads were glued in and the inside was glassed in one step.

Working in an unheated hall, without a place to leave tools and things showed to be not ideal. Further it was always a 30min drive to go there and 30 min back - I haven't been there as often as expected.....

While planning our new family home in 2015 I finally got the chance to build my own shop near the house. The max. allowed 50sqm are not generous but enough. The boat on its trailer snugly fits, and after our bikes, garden stuff and all the other things are inside, I can still move around.

The space between stem and bulkhead 0 wouldn't add much comfort to the cabin. I made the bulhead watertight and build a drained storage for fenders, lines, anchor.....

Next step was to frame the cabin, and glue deck, cabin sides and roof.

Starts looking like a boat...

I thought about the possibbility for a self draining cockpit for a long time. After a lot of measuring, thinking, imagining I lifted the cockpit floor about 20 cm (8 inches), filled the space with foam (after sealing with epoxy and glass) and installed 2 pieces of copper-tube in both forward corners as drains through the bottom. Seat hight is 42 cm - about 9inches now.

After seeing this Youtube Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--iPQIwSEJM

I made my first experiences with steam bending in plastic sleeves. Just small sized battens for cabin roof edges. I used the stuff for vacuum-packing food - easy work and surprisingly good results. Next I'm going to bend gunwhales...

The main mast ist glued of 4 larch boards 25mm (1inch) thick - 10x10cm (4x4 inch) at the bottom. Here are my efforts to get it round... For the mizzen I found a nice little quite straight larch sapling in ideal size....just found a stick in the woods....