Nutshell Pram EXCUSE ME 17 Sep 22 Punch List

 17 Sep 22:

At this stage of a project we keep a punch list, a list of things left to do, and we try to prioritize the sequence of fun so we don't end up at the end needing to fair, sand, prime, sand, prime, sand, paint, sand, paint, sand, paint and wait for paint to dry on a boat part. I'm  not sure when the first bit of fairing compound went onto the boat, but it's been a few weeks. On this build I'm glad we took care of spars, sail and daggerboard midway through, and that's what we recommended to someone recently, actually we suggested that they build the rudder and daggerboard first, then spars, while they waited for bigger parts to appear.

I broke our Punch List down into the Row, Tow, Scull, Sail design categories and decided we needed to work on the row items, one of which was to screw down the aft thwart. To do that I needed the rudder so I could check the stowage space needed behind the thwart. So we installed the traveler and then placed the rudder and daggerboard behind the aft thwart to check for fit. That sounds kind of like yak shaving doesn't it? We then fastened the thwart with Frearson head silicon bronze wood screws from Fairwinds Fasteners. We leave the screw heads visible so that the thwart can be removed as needed, especially down the road when it's time for a topcoat of varnish and inboard paint, hard to varnish the bottom of a thwart.

For Tow Mode we needed to seal the inside of the hole we drilled in the bow transom. I had taped the back of the hole shut and dispensed THIXO Flex into the hole a day or so back, so it could soak into the raw wood. Today I redrilled a slightly smaller hole, so essentially there is a small epoxy bushing in there now, and reinstalled the painter. An buddy suggested a double stop knot both inside and outside of the transom to limit water ingress, we did that and it looks good

So she can Row and Tow now.

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