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If you go down 3 more boxes on the photobucket page, you will see something along these lines:

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Copy and paste that one, and you are golden!

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Post by Spokaloo »

Its like magic!

Looks good man, nice progress.

Hey if we fly through there on our Croatia trip next year, we should hook up!

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Mahi-mahi anytime you want to go out - not many of those out your way. I'll keep the plastic bathtub til this boats in the water. BTW, Spokaloo, almost fell off the ladder with a cup of epoxy the other day when my BBing flip-flops blew out. Had to demote my street flops to BBing status, pull lout my last spare new pair from the closet. :D

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Its a hard day indeed when the BB flops die. You eventually will spill enough epoxy on the straps to make them feel at home again. Do you have any fabric actually laminated to the soles yet?

Good luck!

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Thanks for the help wioth the pics, Spokaloo, I didn't think I'd figure it out til you made it easy.

Over the weekend I glassed one side of the bottom on Sat and one on Sunday, about 3 hours labor each and my wife mixed epoxy for an hour each day, which more than doubles the progress when you have a mixer. She wanted to help, but I'm not sure it was as fun for her as it was for me. :D

Only had an hour to work today, so did 1 layer of rubrail on 1 side. Still have to glass the transom, glass the sides, 100 more feet of rubrail, skeg and fair on this side of the boat. Even when I don't have much time to work on the boat, I like to do something for and hour or 2 just to keep monentum going. 53 hours labor thus far, so I'm not going to match the average person in the study plans who built the hull in 50 hours.

83 degrees here again today, no problem getting the winter epoxy to cure in Guam

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So you see, this is the time for pictures!

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half glassed...
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Bottom glass on, starting rubrails.
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