She's coming along! I worked on instructions for a couple of hours. For one of my simpler kits, there sure are a lot of tips & tricks to relate.
The 2.0 corrected hull can out swell and is casting quite nicely! Cape Islander "Janie C." Her fisheries registration number is the correct one.
Dad's Larsen was silver metal flake with red & gray accents on the hull. Her interior was almost this exact shade of red. The was a wood batten hatch in the floor for access to stowage that I left out. She never did have a proper name. One of my first commands as a much younger child was our family 10-foot Jon Boat. Her name was "Lil' Bit". 6 kids cold carry it across the street to the ditch when it flooded. Our neighbors had a good laugh at the bold, brown-water sailors of Alabama Lane.
The next Jon Boat was a 16-footer that Dad liked to go fishing in. "Lil' Bit Bigger". She had a green 7.5 hp Evinrude outboard and she really scooted! We never tired to Shanghai "Lil' Bit Bigger". She had a trailer for a reason. We had a procession of small craft as we aged. The first Larsen was my favorite ski boat. 2.3l 140 hp inboard. A great lake boat.
My first command under sail was a "Potato Chip". A lateen-rigged Roadrunner 8-footer with a flush deck. For warm day sailing only, because you're always wet. The very vessel I recently gave to our neighbors. The second was much grander. A Victoria 18 Daysailer. She had a yellow hull and white upperworks. Tinted glass! She had a retractable centerboard for shoal waters and trailering, head and genoa sails. She seated 8 and was dry and speedy! I used to troll, silently, from point to point, downwind, for walleye pike. I caught a few too! My Dad fumed. He never caught any walleyes at Sun Valley. I do LOVE to sail!
Castings continue unabated. One 30ml set about every 3 hours. One of these ol' days, I'll take a day off!
