With the capping of the skeg and stem in place, the next step was to plane the skeg capping and add an epoxy cove between the keel/deadwood and the hull.
The stem capping needed to be plained to match the hull and then nicely rounded off.
Which left me with a hull (nearly) ready for sheathing. But if you look at the next two pictures, you will see the gaps between the strip planks. I decided that a coating of filler (epoxy with low density filler) would be a good idea to fill the gaps as well as any dents or low spots in the strip planks.
The next few pictures show the stages of painting on a coat of epoxy, spreading on the filler and then sanding most of it off again.
One side finished. The other to do.
On to the starboard side….
