Main hull bottom glued

Five hours of work today. We first prepared the panels, sanding the contact surfaces and boring those along the edges on 15 cm centers for the screws that go into the stringers. Here's a pic of the central panel which also shows the large glueing surface around the centerboard slot.

The central panel was the first to go on. Here is a pic taken just before the lunch break which also shows one of the two, 2 cm thick butt blocks. Also visible are the 14 permanent SS screws (5x40 mm) which go through the 12 mm bottom into the centerboard trunk logs. Pretty strong, isn't it?

In the afternoon we glued the other two panels. In total we prepared about 1 kg of resin thickened with microfibers and some Cabosil. Quite some glue oozed out of the seams which we cleaned, but most probably some oozed also on the inside, and there's nothing we can do with that. At this time, the low half of the boat is hermetically sealed. Once the boat is turned rightside up, we'll install two hatches in the cockpit sole. Here's a view of the hull with the milestone beer.

Total work time to date: 342 hours.