It became clear that the day’s bad news would continue as I looked to the bow to see smoke rising from the pour. In checking this it was clear that the bow dam had leaked as well and now we had each end leaking and smoking, I think just as a sort of anger enhancer. The bow pour had much more glue in it and the heat generating from this was beginning to worry me. I was afraid the heat would discolor the bow section or worse so the garden hose came out to save the day.

For the next hour or so I sprayed the hull with cold water making quite the mess in the already messy garage. As an added bonus I soaked a bag of charcoal that happened to be in the line of fire of the hose.

After this ordeal, there seemed little reason to extend the extra effort trying to figure out why the manual seemed to want us to drill holes in the hull to mount the foot braces. (The foot braces were the original day’s task as the end pours were not expected to take much time). The screws would only protrude at most 1/8 of an inch from the brace thus making it difficult to understand why this would be a good idea. Not only did the drilling make no apparent sense but the instructions seemed to give two different dimensions for the same holes (1/4 " AND 5/16". The screws are slightly under 1/4") . Seems the foot braces will have to wait.
~posted by Mike, the dyslexic left-handed carpenter