Aft bunktop flange and anchor well prep

Well, so much for "getting back to boat building", as I said oh-so-optimistically last month. Let me get the whining out of the way: 1) the weather stayed cold and I'm a big chicken; and 2) I've been putting in a lot of extra hours at work. Which sucks - but work is what pays the bills, both for food and epoxy. Have to keep that in mind.

I finally got back out to the tent and taped the underside of the aft-cabin front panel:

The next day I slid my upper hull half over to the side on 2x4's, so I could work on the aft cabin bunktop flange from the outside:

On my first hull half I didn't do all of the flanges that I should have, so I'm trying to do a better job now. I knew from taping the aft bunktop on the the first full half, that there's very little room to get in there. For the flange on this one, I decided to make a cut-down mold plate by tracing the real bulkhead:

In the picture above, I'm using my daggerboard-to-be as a work table.

After covering the mold plate with masking tape, I fitted it into place:

Then I mixed up a bunch of bog (you have to fill that crack up quite a bit, in order to have a reasonable curve to the glass) and taped against the mold:

(Sorry, you can't see much in that picture but it was the best of the bunch.)

When I got up this morning, the flange glass was still a bit tacky so I decided to let it sit another day. What I should have done was work on mounting my bow web in the hull, but because it was a bit chilly I decided to work on the anchor well for awhile instead. This turned out to be more work than I expected and I didn't get much else done today.

Here I was routing out the slots for the battens:

The plans say to make four mold patterns, but the back of the well is almost 4' wide; I guess you could get by with just four, but you'd have to leave the battens hanging out quite a ways unsupported. So I went back and made a fifth one. Here's the the basic mold all done:

After the mold was ready I planked it and then bogged between the planks and filled in all of the holes:

That's where I left things for today.