QBU 6.25.09

Well, the entire stbd hull is "glue set" and just needs the angular braces next. Angular bracing and the keeltopping strips in those three places, and the ply webbing after that, then filleting.

Yeah, then the port hull goes into its cradles and gets same. After that, both hulls will be at the 'lowers completed stage' which I had originally called "Phase 1"

Phase 1 is far enough along that, if I HAD to, I could place the hulls on a trailer and move the build somewhere else, (such as if we sold the house and moved.) It's also the end of my initial plywood/epoxy materials order, and money will have to be spent again for more materials to do 'phase 2' which is the uppers and the decks, bunks, cabin, etc... Probably $1200 for the rest of the ply, and another $800 or so on epoxy and epoxy accessories, putting the grand total so far to about $5000 for completed, unglassed hulls and three beams. (Already spent $3000 on plans, first half of ply, and epoxy.)

The remaining .big. expenses are the glass cloth, sails, paint, rigging, and an outboard motor, and finishing the trailer. I'm guesstimating another $6000 for all of this and extra details, and maybe the T30 comes in at around $11k or so, though I figured twice that at the start. The extra costs I'm probably not considering too well right now are the upholstery.cushioning, the electronics, plumbing, tankage, probably a million little things that will being the total up to par. But they are add-ons in my head, (in my mind, the boat construction is finished when it can sail and motor away. The rest is "outfitting," done at my leisure.)

But phase 1 completion is still a ways off, I intend to make the diagonal bracings tonight, and maybe get them glued in, and hopefully the extra keel timbers as well.