around the cockpit so we tried to limit the amount of staples we put in the top as much as possible of course we couldn't do that so we had to have two lines of exposed staples on either side but instead of just hammering them in willy nilly i had mike mark out a perfect little mark every two inches along both sides this way our staples would look more intentional and follow a uniform pattern so while he marked those out i just kept throwing in staples around the cockpit where things will be trimmed up then once i had the interior all stapled i just started following along behind mike stapling on each one of his pre-determined little marks it actually kind of made a really cool stitched pattern on both sides we filled all these staples eventually with wood filler and it actually looks great i don't think anyone would be like hey man what's with all those exposed staples after getting everything stapled once again it was back to that good old trim flush cut router bit to clean everything up nice and smooth by far the most satisfying thing to use the trim router on was our cockpit we just loosely cut out a hole so we could get in there and then zip zip zoop we cut the whole thing out with that trim router gosh i love that tool then with our top panel on it was back to getting everything trimmed up more mahogany more thickened epoxy and more NUMBER_TOKEN gauge brad nails at times this was a frustrating process because the curve of the boat just fought us every step of the way but we went slow and it was so satisfying in the end to watch this thing go from a bunch of plywood panels just kind of hooked together to what was starting to look like a nice clean trimmed out boat there's the trim router again just flush cutting everything nice and purty the last thing that we had to trim out was of course around our cockpit so i cut some more pieces of mahogany and we laid them in there nice and tight tacking them down once again with that thickened epoxy and the NUMBER_TOKEN gauge brad nailer and then we were almost ready to get some finish on this thing but because we're on a time crunch we had to figure out a way that we could finish all of the sides of the boat at the same time not have to do the top wait for it to dry flip it over do the bottom wait for it to dry flip it over and do the top you get the picture so we thought suspending it from the ceiling would be the easiest now we didn't want to just drill a bunch of random holes in the boat so we added this little ring at the nose we thought it looked pretty boaty so we'd get away with it i mean we did get it at a boat store after all so with our ring nice and secure in the front with some thickened epoxy it was time to do my all-time favorite thing you guys know what it is sand our life away we both got out some sanders and some sandpaper and we just started sanding mike filled a few staple holes i sanded i filled a few holes he sanded it was a process once we did the top we flipped it over and yep you guessed it more sanding on the bottom now in a normal boat build i would like to spend a good week very carefully and meticulously
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