I dry fitted the first  upper gunnels . I am using fairly straight grained fir and I some how managed to bend it into position with some creative clamping and a small amount of cursing. I am scarfing it near the middle as my wood was only 10 feet long. I am just going to scarf the pieces together in place. I am going to paint my rub Wales to make a contrast to all the wood .
I only had black sika what a mess . I went to the local hardware but no luck. I live on a island so I would have had to catch a ferry to get mahogany colored bedding compound. I have permanently stained black hands and my wife was suitably unimpressed when I showed up at the dinner table..

All ended well I am still dirty but the stuff sanded of the boat..... I think I will use painters tape on  the next one
OOOOOOPPPPPS!!!!!!!!

A little to much torque to bend it and snap.... I decided for to not pre-drill my holes and see if I could make the in an down bend required .... I was hope full as this was the last piece on the second side.
Not pre-drilling seemed to work but just using clamps made the job a lot harder. I can see a flat spot near the middle at the scarf that I will fair out . Gluing was a way cleaner this time as I dragged my 14 year old away from social networking and had her extra hands while I clamped and screwed.

You really realize how much shape is in this boat when you attach these outwales

As you can see I also dry fitted the bottom rail. Since they are almost a perfect square the bend real easy
My daughter (middle) and nephew and niece going for a back yard boat ride
I made the bow sprit ..not a very good picture but  I am happy with it. I just placed into its position for this photo
After emailing Perry Burton and much deliberation I decided to get rid of the motor well. my reasons were that I didn't like how much space I was losing to the motor. I didn't like the way I was going to have to cut up my transom. I felt the well would be restrictive to engine options as far as size goes. I wanted my interior to be more balanced. I didn't want to nibble away the deck to make room......Anyway I awoke early and without much more thought I started to destroy the motor well.
This is a real bad picture looking down into the now cut off well...

 I left a chunk that was against the side of the hull and shaped it as a brace.. I drilled several one inch vent hole in the forward and back sections to allow circulation and a small mouse hole at the back section on the floor  for moisture to drain out
I coated the inside with a thick coat of thickened epoxy and cut out a piece of 9 mil to cover the hole..... No more engine well....I also got rid of the rudder brace on the inside as I made my transom double thick plus a layer of mahogany laminated on. I can't get around it anymore... tomorrow I need to spend a day sanding so I can paint the interior bits that need paint
I made a pattern and cut my version of coaming . Remarkably and pleasantly, virtual identical for each side. They are just temporarily fastened here as I am sort of planning as I go. I am experimenting with door skin on how the side coaming will advance to the foredeck. I also have been doing lots of sanding to get ready for interior paint ... Things are coming together but at the same time I have a huge amount of work left to do. 
A young buck was spying on me as  I had my morning coffee
Wait what this picture doing here

 

spent a week away camping and surfing (badly) at Tofino on Vancouver island.

I played around with door skin patterns and came up with this for the front part of the coaming. I cut the shape out of 3mm marine ply and stacked them to make 6 mm this easily made the bend I wanted .. The pieces are just dry fit
another angle on how it all ties together. 
I realized I better get the hull completely finished while the weather is still warm.. So I spent a couple of days  working on the gunnels and painting base coat (again) tomorrow top coat ..., soon base coat the gunnels and varnish the sheer strake
Yikes that looks bad ....   I decided to paint the upper rub rail fire red and the bottom Bristol beige along with the rest of the boat . The blue is tape and I put it on the top plank as a precaution against spillage which obviously was a good idea.. The only problem is I cant' see how the red looks because it is covered up.. I was thinking a boot strip of the same red and also the outside of my coaming.... We will see ................

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