7th August

Did fillets in bow section and fitted oak mast compression post which still needs to be glued in.

Drilled through the hull for keel bolts.  Bolts are 12mm diameter and drilled 13mm holes.  I lifted the boat up a bit to get access to the underneath.  I put my finger over the hole on the outside and Mrs Nuts poured epoxy into the hole till full and waited a bit for the epoxy to soak in and then dumped the epoxy into a plastic cup and moved on to the next hole.  This way the inside of the holes will get a good saturation of epoxy.  Going to do this twice before turning the boat upside down again for marking the keel holes onto the steel plate.  Planning to do some tack welds on the keel and fit it to the upside down hull to check all is good before doing the big weld. (without the lead)