Constructing the Daggerboard

It has been a couple of weeks since my last post and unfortunately I haven't made as much progress as I had hoped.  I have spent considerable time trying to decide whether to build the mast or buy one. I have also been looking for hardware such as the gudgeons and pintles and other things.  I found a nice little consignment shop in Oriental, NC and they have all kinds of used hardware, sails, etc.  Howver they did not have sails to fit my boat, the Corsair 13.  But as luck would have it, my trip to Oriental turned out to be very productive when I found an old boat yard near New Bern.  In the boat yard was 2 day sailers and the owner has told me to "help myself" on any hardware, etc.  He also has a mast that I think will work perfect for my boat....I am going to pick it up this weekend so we will see what happens.

I have bounced around on the construction of my boat---mainly because I have spent a lot of time thinking about storage issues and my floatation.  The attached photos depict the construction of the dagger board which is made from 3 pieces of 1/2" marine plywood laminated with epoxy.  I use 80-grit sandpaper on a belt sander to shape the daggerboard. Photo # 152 shows the daggerboard approximately 80% finished & prior to the application of epoxy and glass tape on the front and rear edges.  Photo #160 depicts the daggerboard just prior to epoxy and glass.  I am currently waiting to apply the final coat of epoxy and will finish the sanding soon.