Day 120
Days remaining. 114

Worth the weight?

Final panel, the working deck (not sure you can really call it a cockpit floor!) just being glued on.  You need lots of squashing down onto the glue power - and just about anything will do!
Heaps of work in the control area forward of this is already done - including fitting the large ringbolts that a lot of the controls will need as an anchor point (you can see them in the pic, shining away!). It all takes time, but it's done now and the primer is going on... I've decided not to send it away to paint. I really like the uber flat paint finish on Rob's boat so I'm using Durepox and a roller and am happy to spend some time flatting and cutting back over the next few weeks as time permits.

In other news, my life is about to change radically as I have decided to leave carbonology, where I have been for over nearly 11yrs and leave Suffolk, where I've lived since coming back from the Sydney Olympics.  I'm moving back to Hamble full time and taking a job in the RYA as Youth Racing Operations Manager - where effectively I'll be running the logistics and devising/implementing the programme for the British Youth Sailing Team.  I start pretty soon actually because they want me in post before he season kicks off properly. Carbonology will carry on and will be in excellent hands so please continue to support the firm.  Exciting times. Expect to see another RYA Volvo with a moth on the roof... If it's a white and black one with tail fins, it's the Blackbird!!

97 days to go... Crikey!! - Anyone got a rudder I can borrow?! (yes seriously!)

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