The pieces are beginning to come together.
1. Second windscreen construction after badly messing up the first attempt.
2. Some final fitting required & then on to the windows.
3.The framing for the house bulkheads worked out as intended.
4. Look closely & you can see a lift strake was added (P&S) at the turn of the bilge.The 1:1 has a longer strake inboard of the bilge strakes. I’ll probably add those also. The hull now gets out of the hole which before the addition of the strakes & a reduction of ballast weight in the bow it could not do.

Hi Ron & Bob.
The 1:1 boat I’m using as the inspiration is shown in my first in this blog. What interested me was the 36 Northern Bay’s rather unique, for a sport fisherman’s, shear line & the unusual house geometry. It’s the first time I’ve seen one arranged this way. The 1:1 shows a lobster pot hauler in the Stbd cabin offset but there is no sign of any provision for an accompanying pot hauling davit. I’ve never seen a large sport fish also rigged for lobstering. Harpoon fishing yes, but not for lobstering. The offset in my build will be used as an aft helm station occasionally seen on boats that fish for really (300 lb +) big species & have to back down on the fish during the fight to land it. A lot of backing down is required to keep the fish on the stern of the boat. An aft helm makes it easier to keep track of the fish’s position relative to the boat’s stern.

Bob, when I have ready access to water such as now when I’m temporarily in Florida 😎 I throw a build in the water. Sometimes the results are very exciting to say the least! Here, I toasted the ESC since the hull was wide open to water particularly over the stern. Once a build is closed in to water I run it for fun, correcting problems, & trying ideas. The lift strakes were added & ballast weight adjusted as a result of this displacement hull’s inability to lift its stern out of the hole as discovered in one running session.

Work continues.
Bill

First lap at WOT. After that the speed is more scale.

Mocking up the tower

1-3 Views of the tower or to be precise, 1/2
tower.
4. House fully enclosed & windows added.

The SW Florida boatyard manager

The mock-up of the half tower has become THE half tower.

The boat will be trucked to the northern branch of the Cape Cod & South West Florida Shipyard next Monday where work will continue.

Bent butt rods with Penn International reels in swivel holders for fishing flat lines as part of an array of towed lures.

Rods in stored position for running to the fishing grounds.

Life raft canister installed & grab railings begun.

A 2.8 MB photo .
2nd photo is what I tried to post under “ My Builds. 3.8 MB it didn’t post here as an edit. Error message “Write failed”.

Well, trying to post the same photo as below yielded a “failed to write” error message. Note the image that successfully posted was posted in the “Build Blog” The image would not post when tried under “My Builds” section of My Account. May well be your intent Stephen.

Posted photo done in My Build. 3.8 MB. Well, it didn’t post. Error was “Failed write

Testing the improved photo posting, but also providing a bit of an update.