Underwater

• Drilled propeller hole

• Drilled exhaust hole

• Drilled water filter hole through the hull below waterline

• Eco sounder - cut a hole in the bottom and make it solid fibreglass & epoxy as the echo sounder does not work well through the wood. Glued the transducer on top of that. 

• Shaped the stern for the propeller, fibreglass, epoxied etc

• Added wood to the stem to make it rounded 

• Measured and raised the waterline 10 cm / 4” (hope it does not disappear when launched) 

• Epoxy glue waterline with a string

• Fitted series drogue plates: 10 mm stainless steel plate - 40 cm long,  with 4 mm SS backing plate

Finish

• Epoxy to the hull at the time of build, sanded

• 2 coats of epoxy, sanded

• 2 coats of epoxy primer, sanded 

• 5 coats of epoxy and copper coat powder mix applied in one day to bond well

• Sanded before launch to expose copper

Topsides

• Cut out 2 windows port and starboard and 2 aft

• Epoxy coated at the time of build and painted to a high standard. This needed no attention at the time. We only needed to paint to our colour scheme. 

• Two epoxy undercoat paint, plus two polyurethane paint 

Bow and Side Decks

• Sanded back the paint

• Epoxy fibreglass  

• Epoxy undercoat x 2

• Non slip paint ​​​