As for the other comment about much going on, I have been grappling with a 'mid-life career crisis'. Long story short, I have started an online university degree. This has proven to be much more work than I had anticipated, and so the canoe has been forced to take a back seat yet again. She has been carried around to the back yard (oh yeah, we had to buy a new car as well, so the canoe got evicted from the car port), bundled up and tied down. I'm currently on a couple of months holidays, and I had hoped to be able to work on both of these projects simultaneously, but this has proved to be impractical (especially whilst also trying to fulfill my usual family obligations). It's so incredibly frustrating, but I have a cunning plan. This current unit only has about another six weeks to go and the next study period runs from November to about February next year. I'm going to take that study period off so that I can focus solely on getting the canoe finished. Then I can resume my studies next year, and start using the canoe in whatever opportunities I get. Anyway, that's the current plan.
I did manage to get the outside of the canoe fiber glassed and it's ready to pop off the molds. I've discovered that I'm a pretty horrible fiber glasser. The epoxy went on relatively smoothly, but I've come to the conclusion that fiber glass cloth was invented by the devil. No matter how careful I was, I just couldn't get the cloth to lay flat. She looks a bit like a Frankenstein job to me, but it should prove strong enough. It really decides the fact that I'm going to have to use fairing powder to get the hull nice and smooth before painting. No real problem I guess. Here's a couple of photos.
