So today is a good day.  All six pieces of laminated foam floatation are bonded to the interior of the hull.  Here are four of them, in case anyone was interested in seeing them.

There is a 3mm sheet of marine plywood laminated to the tops because they may be subjected to a lot of abuse since there will be a lot of gear placed on them while sailing.  The sides are just thin walls of fiberglass.

I have to do a bit of lamination on the inside still, but that should be pretty strait forward at this point.

I also have had some very good oysters here.  People are pretty outraged when I say that the oysters we have between Louisiana and Apalachicola, FL are the best in the world.  So I’ve been eating a lot of the local oysters to get to the bottom of this argument.  The one’s pictured below have made things a little less clear, and I’ll have to come home and check.  But these were pretty damn good.

They used to live in front of a friend’s house here.  The nice thing is, when the tide goes out, you can walk out there and grab them.   If only there was a way to get Northern Gulf Coast oysters here so we could have some sort of contest.

Here I am writing this blog.  I’m including this picture because my room is so dark that without the flash, I didn’t know half of those things were in this room.  I mean, what’s that stick thing?  I’ll check after I’m done writing this.

I’m glad the room is dark though, because dusk isn’t until after 11 pm here and dawn is only a handful of hours later.

Tomorrow I’ll finish with the foam installation and I’m meeting with an electronics guy named Olive who is a friend of a bunch of friends and the B&G guy for the Gitana team.  I hope my problems are really easy for him to figure out, because you know the guy has seen everything.

-R