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Ian sent these pictures on 30 Oct 2007, along with the following notes:

I put the deckhouse sides and front on with a strip of recycled kauri around the bottom edge to hide the edge of the plywood when you are "in bunk". The inner carlins and the coachroof framing will be kauri as well.  Since then I have shifted the boat back a bit on the trailer (with the aid of a 2-ton jack under the stern with a tackle to the overhead to keep her steady, and a 2-ton hoist at the bow), trimmed the stems, put the toe-rails on, and installed most of the deck fittings, in that order.  The small epoxy platform is for the VHF aerial.  The big bronze cleats are a couple my brother gave me a while ago.  Generous, eh.  The toe-rail took about a week. It is in two laminations of kauri, which I glued to the deck and clamped to blocks which were fastened to the deck with hot-melt glue, with parcel-tape and masking tape in the right places.  When that glue was set, I drilled, glued, screwed and plugged the rails, let that set, then knocked the blocks off and cleaned off the hot-melt glue.  Then I still had to shape and sand the rails, coat them with resin and rub them down, so that's how they are now.  The deck fittings are bedded in epoxy so they are solid with the boat.  The next jobs are to make and install the rest of the mooring cleats out of a piece of ash I have for the tiller, design and build a switchboard and bookrack in the cabin, finish the framing around the deckhouse, and make the fore-hatch coamings.  Then I will be able to varnish and paint the interior.  We made paper patterns for the squabs on Saturday.  The deadlight castings have cleaned up nicely.  My deadline for completion is mid-February, so we can take her to the annual Classic Boat Festival at Lake Rotoiti in the Nelson district here in the South Island of New Zealand, for the first weekend of March.

Block to protect transducers.

Stern layout. As you can see, there is still some trim to go around the motor hatch and the mizzen socket.