This thing is actually starting to come together. The racks are assembled and most of the hull is done. I need to re-inforce the deck with a carbon/kevlar fabric and do some extra finish work inside the hull, but its just about ready close up. After that I need to finish the mast support and then tape the outside joints and it will be time to think about fairing and painting the hull. I'll probably wait a while to do that though.
Some fun notes about racks, building them off of the boat is the ONLY way to keep them square and I think I did a pretty good job. It is a little scary putting everything together on the floor and then hoping that if fits on the boat. To this end I didn't reinforce the angle in the carbon tubes until I checked that it was all going to work. This was probably a good plan, but it also lead to several joint failures while moving things around. They were easy to fix, but it was a bit un-nearving. Another note, the rack frames are quite large when assembled. The frame is close to seven feet square. Once its on the boat its fine, but its really hard to pick the entire frame up just because you can't reach very much of it at a time. I am really glad that I made the frames collapsible.
