Been spending my time sanding rough epoxy areas and smoothing out the coves. I'm ready to call it good enough, though if I felt I had more years in my life I would do it a bit better. Sometimes you just have to weigh what is important in one's life and let the small stuff go. So there will be a few rough spots. We (me and my unskilled help back when first getting this boat going) didn't know how to get a good, smooth cove very well so there's some messes which I've cleaned up best I'm going to do. I'm better at coving now, but it is an art I wouldn't say I've mastered.
There's also rough edges where biaxial knitted fabric was used to join structures, and some small voids where the peel ply didn't make complete contact with the fabric, that someone with more time and drive would perhaps fair out. My rationale is that it adds weight to smooth it all out, so can live with some bumps. Trying to get it at least where a person could wipe it down with a cloth without catching said cloth on roughness.
So here's a pic of the hull I've been working in lately. This is the side that suffered the most damage when the barge broadsided it. The port side should be somewhat quicker to do as it had less damage (which means less patching, fairing, sanding). Also I've already done the worst of it on the forward part of the hull. The port side still needs an icebox/counter added which I've yet to construct. And possibly a provision for an electric fridge/freezer in case I can someday afford that.
