Egged again.  I feel for those hens, laying (up) eggs is hard work and not as easy as one might imagine!

These are four that are almost ready for paint and in the back=ground, two more are being "laid".

Yes, we are running a bit late on theses.  Only four in primer and eight more to go! Had a engineering snafu and had to figure out a new way to put Humpty Dumpty  together.  That took a few days and a couple of errors, but now that we have a system that works, the rest should go a bit smoother.

The bow and forward sections are just about there.

That bit of twisting we had on the bow is still giving us grief.  The twist is gone but it is showing it's ugly head with the various other issues it caused. 

The next picture shows the gauge we made to help make sure the port side matches the starboard side. 

So the boat is pretty symmetrical about the real center line.

The keel is put into place here and is being used as a reference to insure the hull is symmetrical and that the keel and rudders are where they belong.

The gage works by using the dowels to contact the surface. Switching the gage around checks that both halves are the same.  A little putty and the lots of sanding that goes with it takes care of any issues.


The gage is shown sitting at station 53.5 and is about where our twisted bow began.

Everything aft of 53.5 seems to be OK while everything forward has been found to be off just a bit.  Just enough to cause us some trouble.



We did a lot of sole searching over whether to go forward with the reflex idea.  We finally decided that as the boat will still pass the current rule set (North American) with it and the fact that Chris Beckwith, the designer said he thought it was a good idea, we went ahead with it.

This first picture is what the water will see of it. Not much really. 

This picture shows just how much it does "reflex" or kick back up.

The idea is t fool the water into thinking that the boat is a bit longer than it is.  We decided that the true waterline is about 14 to 16 inches forward of the transom and so the reflex starts there.  It adds about .5" to the hull and topsides, not changing the measurement of the beam at the transom and adding about .5" to the free boards. The chine dimension does not change more than a .5" overall.

So, the boat still passes the rules, except it will not pass the extended line part of the original rule measurement method to measure the beam.  But then, most boats built will not.

One thing to remember is that if this reflex works and works well, it can be easily added to any boat. 

Of course, if it makes the thing slower, it can also be easily removed!