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Your boat sounds great, do you have any pictures or drawings? What is the hull material, the layup schedule I mean? Is it cored with glass over? Are you vacuum bagging? How far along are you in construction, and where are you located? (I'm in San Diego.)

I have a million questions but those will do for now.

It's plywood with a foam core, built on 4 ft. centers. It's epoxied on the interior face (to the foam), then glassed (hubby would know the specs on the glass--how many oz.--but I know it's nice stuff & doesn't fray when it's cut). The exterior has been glassed, with triple taping on the seams, no bagging.

We're in the Green Bay area (and I am envious about you living in San Diego--they're very accomodating to sailors). Every boatbuilding junkie in our area has stopped by to see it and watch its progress. We just had someone over this week with boatbuilding stars in his eyes, wanting advice. It told him to get every heavy-duty power tool ever made x 2, and become friends with the guys at the power tool repair shop. I told him to count on it taking twice as long and costing twice as much as originally thought. White vinegar will take green epoxy off flesh, but once it hits your glasses, you'll be looking through it for quite some time. We buy epoxy by the 55 gallon drum & fiberglass by the bolt (and laughed hysterically when this clerk at West showed us his 1 gallon cans of epoxy & bits of fiberglasswhen we were in the store the last time when we told him we were building a boat--we could use that in an hour or two when we were glassing the hulls). We're on a first name basis with the folks at Defender. We've cut our sailing magazines down to Practical Sailor and the Seven Seas bulletin.

If I knew how to post the pix, I would....so just freepmail me & I'll send the pix along. I haven't taken any of the interior lately because it's not finished, but the exterior looks done--painted & everything.