Today I sanded the cutouts in the seat back and said " it's time, glue it in place". In the picture below it appears the bottom of the seat is no even with the hull bottom but it is overhanging the table and actually is flush. I also fired up the supplemental heat as the temp. is hovering at about 50F and that is a bit slow for epoxy to cure. I attached a few pictures of the progress including the final fitting prior to mast step assembly into the hull and my attempts to keep the hull square and plumb. Next week it's time for the hull bottom and mast step to be completed.

Tomorrow I get the opportunity to help set up a JX at the Jacobs workshop and this will be a great education since the only thing I've assembled is a borrowed Skimmer last winter. I also need to secretly capture some measurements from that trick hull !!!!!

We're headed to Pittsburgh Thursday for a long weekend with my wifes son. He's in his last year at U of Pittsburgh and planning to spend a couple years in teach America prior to grad. school. At the top left of the Blog is a picture of my wife Frances taken last winter at Elk Lake.