Here's a tip for any aspiring Melanesia builders out there: finish shaping all of your parts before epoxy coating them. Otherwise, you'll end up having to do tiny-batch coating on things like the stem- and stern-post tapers, which is where I am now. It's frustrating because it's keeping me from stitching the panels together and moving forward.
Since I'm using pumps with my epoxy, the smallest batch I can mix is way too big for the tiny spots I'm coating, so I've been looking around for other small parts to work on. Oh, yeah, the deck beams and lashing pads! Completely forgot about those.... So I put a first coat on the deck beams and cut out a bunch of lashing pads last night. I'll finish the last of the stem/stern post touch up today, and coat the pads & beams while I'm at it. Once that's done, it will be stitching time.
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