It was one of these one step forward and one or two steps back day.
John brought a power sander and some perfect weight sandpaper and blew through 52 feet of white putty that we used to fill, it seemed like 1000s of little holes from tacks and staples.
The original plan was to fiberglass the inside of the boat just where we fixed cracks and also to replace the support tape/fiberglass the Pococks had put in the boat and was falling off. But, the more we talked the more we decided to put a layer of light fiberglass on the inside of the boat. It was felt that if we didn't the boat would continue to crack. We noticed where the boat had been fiberglassed on the inside did not crack, and thought if we didn't do a complete job, it would be a just a few years before we had the boat back in the shop for more repairs.
When one has a light below the boat, you can see the repaired cracks pretty easily. There is one particularly bright spot where the previous owners had sanded just a little too much.
We did some calculations on the fiberglass. The boat is 26'4" long. At it's widest circumference, it is 21"; almost the entire boat is smaller than that. We do not need this same amount of fiberglass to glass the inside of boat as some of it is already done.
I am starting to worry about running out of time.