"The Big Fitz" Dry Dock 10

Hell Weeks

If it wasn't bad enough that I cut my nearly finished Fitzgerald in half, I had to run into more problems. During X-Mas of 2004 I was planning on having my Fitzgerald hull rebuilt, fiberglassed and ready for paint. Well a bad mix of epoxy while putting on the new spar deck shot all hopes of that happening. The epoxy did not harden, it stayed in a hard gum form. The deck had to be taken off, and the gum scraped off with a chisel. A daunting task to say the least, one that lasted for weeks. Don't know how I got though it.

I was a building mad man, my work shop didn't get cleaned for weeks. The floor was covered with epoxy, foam, sand paper and dust from all my work. I had to get these boats back in shape asap our I felt I would never get them done. Finally after weeks I can relax a bit and get back to enjoying this hobby. I can handle some re-work, we all make mistakes and we learn from them. This time however really tested my patients, but I got through it.

Finally now mid February I get her hull fiberglasssed and near read for paint.