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The good, the bad and the ugly...

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I've been remiss in posting *anything* about anything for the past couple of weeks.  It's summertime, the team is busy, and I'm burning the candle at both ends (and sometimes in the middle too). Since the last post, we've taken a couple of steps backwards, a couple sideways, and several steps forward.  First the good: We've got a boat, mostly.  Another 20 hours of work on hulls, finish the deck, and build a little deck furniture to get us through this year.  This week has been devoted to getting the deck aligned, the boat square, and bolt holes bored to secure the deck to the hulls.  Next up is to seal up the hulls, glass the top and a few other reinforcements, and add some final reinforcements to the deck before doing the same with it. The bad... The deck was a total and nearly disaster.  Initially, I went with lots of thin ribs, inlet panels to reinforce the structure, and had a great plan to epoxy it all together and it would magically be light