Here’s what my “thunderboat” looks like now

[Jeffrey Hammond]

Painted the exhaust supports, and mounted the exhaust stacks in the forms. Cut the thin bands of cowling material along the rails, as they weren’t doing anything and looked nasty. Can’t mount the exhaust tubes yet. Last major thing to do is make a carburetor deflector to attach to the cowling. That will be tomorrow.

 

[Jeffrey Hammond]

As I started to think about paint, I realized that the two seams in the front deck that I put wood filler on look horrible. So tomorrow, I’m going to sand off the epoxy on the front of the boat, sand down the filler, and re epoxy. Most of the boat will be natural wood, with some color trim. I just don’t know what pattern I am going to use.