Dodger work is progressing (Patreon)

Hi guys

It's been a busy week in the workshop. The frames for the dodger windows are ready to be ordered and I'm about halfway done fairing the dodger. Decent progress :) 

About a month ago a real bonified structural engineer reached out and offered to help with the calculations for the new strutual members under the cabin sole. The current working plan (that I'm very much cheering for) is to lay up a fair bit of extra glass. Enough so that the glass becomes the strutual part rather than the plywood. If the plywood ever rots the glass would simply replace it. Long store short I sent a bunch of measurements to the engineer this week and I'm waiting to hear back. If simply laying up glass turns out to be an option that would mean I don't need to build any kind of support on the outside of the hull. That would be nothing short of amazing! :)

I've ordered everything I need to make a mold of the old rudder. I've gone with products from a German webshop (r-g.de) to try something new (aka not West System products). I think it's going to be a super exciting project! Unfortunately, there is a little bit of fairing to take care of on the old rudder first. I'm starting to really dislike fairing ;) But I better get used to it - there's going to be a fair bit of fairing (wink wink) when I start the interior refit. 

I'm going to relax with an episode of start Trek before I start planning the coming week. There is a lot that needs to happen before I'm hopefully ready to start the mold project next weekend. 

Have an awesome Sunday guys and thank you so much for your support! :)