So far, September's been a bit of a CBA month for some reason - just couldn't seem to get motivated to DO stuff - until a mail from a reader asking how I'm going to attach the decks (thanks Neil).  Answer - not entirely sure yet, but probably a mixture of epoxy & plugged screw fastenings through the decks into the bulkhead tops.

 

Anyway, that kind of got me kick started, and down to some sanding showing the absolute fairness of the sides - Not perfect, but not half bad either!

 

My current schedule has another coat of epoxy being scraped on to try to fill most of the low spots revealed by 4 hours of sanding with 80 grit on a (800mm) long board:

 

revealing some really quite good bits amidships:

 

 

and some other not quite so good areas closer to the bows:

 

this pattern is similar on the port side, but the film thickenss variation is probably less than 0.3mm. However, I don't want to get over-zealous with the sanding at this stage, and will opt for the "fill the low-spots" approach first, followed a further attack with the long-board once I have a little more epoxy depth to play with.

 

Another coat of bilge paint completes September's progress before our next holiday at the beginning of October.