I'd like to introduce Radar. He's our rescued toy Aussie. He weighs all of 10.4 pounds and thinks he's a King. You can see he likes to help get rid of the mistakes we make by chewing them up. Here is the first attempt at my nautical lay-up.
A closer look at the first half of the combing lip. The lip is what you place your spray skirt over to keep it in place on the cockpit for inclimate weather or eskimo rolls!.
The hatch with the epoxie barrier and a foam lip. The foam will act as a form which you'll see in another photo.
Here, I've small pieces of glass that will be wet out with epoxie, then the second set of magnets placed onto it. The epoxie barrier will keep them seperated.
Did someone poop on my deck? No, that's a thickened epoxie mixture that will create lip and hold the hatches in position. After this sets, I'll lay 6 layers of glass over it. Later, when it's done curing, the hatch covers will come off, and this will get trimmed to the shape of the hatch.
Here, the combing wall has been epoxied into the cockpit recess after it was dry fitted.
The hatches are cut out with a japanese pull saw and ready to have the next step done.
Rare earth magnets are used to hold the hatches in place. These magnets are laid into a recess that was drilled and then glassed into place.
After the hatches are done, they are placed into position and an epoxy barrier is placed.
Here, the first half of the combing lip is epoxied together. It's 6 pices of Peruvian Black Walnut and one piece of Birdseye Maple.
The insides of Stella's hull and deck are now sanded and glassed. Then the sheer line was feathered for them to fit back together. These pictures are still at time of sanding.
But before that can happen, the combing wall of the cockpit and the hatched have to be made.
Lucy with her inlays and cockpit recess cut out.
Marie hard at it with the tedious inlay process.
Finished the inlays, now time for the cockpit recess to begin.
Lucy is out for some air.
Marie has really been busy with studying for her exams, but still managed to get a lot done. The Mahogany inlays are done, but now comes the next part. More inlays!
Marie is beginning the cuts for the rest of her deck inlays.
Holes and more holes. Are you nuts?!
The beginning of the infill.
Preparing Stella's deck for epoxy and glass. 
The glass is "wet out" here. The first of three coats of epoxy.
After an hour, I squeegee the epoxy to even the coat before the next application.
Checking the work, looking for bubbles that rise up in the glass.
Marie is continuing here with her cockpit area.
After glass, it's time to take the deck off the hull. Here I'm beginning to remove the forms from inside the shell.
Seperating the deck from the hull. I used hot glue (small amounts) at intervals along the sheer line to hold things in place.
We have seperation! you can see the remaining forms still in the hull.
After removing the deck, it was fun to just look at it from a different view. All that work......whew!
I moved both pieces outside to finish removing the forms.
