Some before and after showing the current progress on the hull...

Before, green Brightsides.

Today,green is almost gone and the bottom gelcoat is stripped.

Rewrapping the keel to stub joint in cloth and G-Flex.

New core above center port trailer pad.  Ice had lifted it and the boat about 6 inches.  Made a small crack in the outer hull skin.  No damage evident inside but I recored a 2 foot are a around it and replaced the outer skin.

Lining up some new core.

I dried the deck core around the chainplates in during Part 1.  Successfully, I might add.  However, the core in this area was soft.  Stress cracks were showing through.  Since I'm repainting the deck again, I've recored these areas.

Middle of fairing after recoring around port chainplate.

Last but not least.  A crack showed up in the hull at the tail end of the keel after a grounding.  We were pulled off backwards.  Seems to have been a bad idea.

Lining up new core around the tail of the keel.  Have to get all the puzzle pieces to fit tight.  Didn't quite have it yet in this pic.

I will be recoring all the way around the keel, but the rest from the outside.  Most of the stub to hull structure is the inner skin.  It's heavy!  The outer hull skin to stub connection is not much at all.  Easier to replace from the outside. 

I've dissected a piece of the outer skin to stub joint.  The outer hull skin was laid first and right up tot he stub.  Then the two layers of roving+mat from the outer layer of the stub were wrapped around the inside of the outer hull skin.  One extends 12 inches and the other 6 inches.  Balsa core was laid directly onto that.  The real structure of the stub to hull joint is on the inside.

More on this later.