Grinding off some pesky old screws

At left is the Dremel tool with a grinding wheel on it. By far this is the attachment that I use almost exclusively when using the D tool. In this case I ground off some screws getting in the way of my keel resto of which an in progress update is pictured. I'm using a lot of the filler in the epoxy mix to make it thick and pasty and find myself mixing in even more filler with each new batch....there's gotta be a limit to how much filler can be absorbed by the epoxy but I haven't reached that limit as far as I know.

a fools progress

added two small hunks-o-wood lathered with epoxy continuing the rebuilding of the keel. The strips of wood pictured are to be cut and laminated into the keel. they are planed down to 3/16" thick so it can bend fairly reasonably.

Let me show you how much I don't know what I'm doing

Using a new product to me, West systems epoxy that Jamestown distributers had a sale on, I decided to do another mini glue lam....haven't thought it out though, and am "shooting from the hip" so to speak...stay tuned for more screw ups!

Back in action

...cleaning out the rotted portion of the bow part of the keel. It definately still has the CPES smell that just about knocks you out and after pouring in about a quart and watching it soak in there doesn't appear to have any benefit. If there is, it's minimal.
..anyway using a Dremel tool and a chisel I reamed that rot out. The Dremel tool works pretty good because it rips through the rot but not the good wood because it's harder.

Now I've got to think!....how will I approach this repair? Fill it with epoxy? do another mini glue lam? Use metal as a reinforcement (rebar if you will)....what?

Busy doing other things, if you're wondering

..mainly legal stuff (I'm not in trouble) but it must be dealt with. The sad part about it is it's taking away valuable boat time.....and also time away from Stanley, he's lucky he's got a good Mom.

Todays' pain in the butt project

I'll let you figger out what I'm doing.

even more rot

Will the rot ever end? Down deep in the bow the keel is rotted, whoever had this boat before me must have tore off some of it before because about half of it is gone. My plan is to use CPES, soak it in, then build it back up using ? and also, I'm wondering if I should perferate the rotted keel so the CPES will have a better chance of penetrating all the pores and wood cell cavities leading to, hopefully a strong keel.