The weekend was two days longer from the observance of the Maundy Thursday and Good Friday. Although lots of boat building time was available, the CR13 did not progress as much since we used the Saturday and Sunday to put up a 22'x12' boatbuilding tent. This is getting to be "serious business".

On Thursday, I decided to remove the front deck support battens which erroneously followed the upper edge of the hull sides. The replacements follow the designer's plans which intersect the stem a few inches below its peak. The intersection of the battens at the stem and the peak of the frames that support the deck form a straight line.

You can see from the picture that using a router referenced to the outside surface of the rubrails was not such a good idea since the operation ended up eating part of the hull. Not to worry though since not much was removed and there is the 3/4" thick rubrail on the other side. Later epoxy putty was used to fix it.

I finally decided to modify the aft portion of the deck to make the space below it usable as storage space by cutting the deck into 3 pieces longitudinally and making the other pieces detachable. This required that deck molds be added to hold the deck in shape since the hull and frames would no longer serve this purpose. Below is a picture of the deck with three mold pieces being glued to it.

In addition to the glue, stailess steel screw were added since I worry that the glue of the cheap exterior plywood will not hold. Later, the molds will be trimmed to length.

Before the day ended, we also glued in the trunk of the daggerboard with a 1" hole drilled so we could cut out the slot the next day. Using a spade bit and a steady hand made a nice hole.

Good Friday in the Philippines is a solemn day throughout most of the archipelago. Loud noises after 1PM, I was told, would not be appropriate. So first thing we did was flip the hull and use trimming and roundover bits in the router to make a nice hole in the trunk for the daggerboard.

By the time I had also cutout the skeg pieces, we still had a good amount of time to the 1PM "deadline". The idea was to do only fairing work in the afternoon. No power tools allowed.

So after lunch with the "no power tools allowed" rule enforced, we glassed up the daggerboard trunk and the skeg to the hull doing wet-on-wet, and started to apply fairing putting to the sides. As the afternoon turned towards the evening, the first batch of in-laws arrived for the traditional Easter get together. My professional painter brother-in-law wasted no time in showing us how the pros do fairing. By mid-evening, we had the entire bottom covered with fairing compound made from epoxy and microballoons.

Over dinner, we discussed and settled on a plan for erecting the boatbuilding shed the next day. The shed design was dictated by the 24'x18' polytarp I had bought on Wednesday at the MC Home Depot along the route I take home. I decided that a 30-60-90 triangle for the roof would be sufficient (and easy). This would make the the tent about 12' wide. Deciding its height was more difficult. High cielings mean cooler spaces but are of course more difficult to build especially since the bamboo frames would not be sufficiently strong to hold a person's weight. Finally, I decided on 8 foot posts which would make the apex of the roof stand at about 13'.

Hardware stores here open at 8AM, so just after 8AM we were at a garden supply that I knew to sell these long light weight bamboo poles normally used for making a richman's fence, and selected 6 bundles of 10 pieces each. Each piece cost P25 ($0.50), a bargain I thought compared to other suitable materials. Our plan at first was to cartop the poles back to the house as my father-in-law had suggested however, seeing how long they were , we of course immediately changed our minds and had them delivered. Although we had to wait till around 1PM for the poles to arrive, the P20 delivery charge was nothing to the fine we would have had to pay for cartopping them if it was at all feasible.

Erecting the boatbuilding tent took the whole afternoon of Saturday and most of Sunday. With the silver side of the polytarp facing outside and considerably lowering the working temperature, the delay to the boat will certainly prove worth it.

By Sunday afternoon, "broken nose" was sitting under the new tent making like a baluga though still waiting for new sawhorses to be built.

Finally, on new sawhorses:

NOTE: Some pictures were taken on April 17. These are the sharper ones. The background is dark because they were taken at nighttime.