The stem area has a nice even shape to it, the way I wanted it when I began shaping the forward area. When the paint goes on it will look clearer.
With a warm room the epoxy cured nicely and has a high gloss look to it. It's almost a pity I have to sand and cover in primer. The pictures look OK, but it doesn't clearly show the smoothness of the finish. Well in most places anyway.
The first coat was applied around 6:30pm, the second around 11:30pm, I finished around 1 am this morning. A late night, but I got 2 layers chemically bonded in the process. If I had more time I would have applied a 3rd coat.
Now I must wait at least 3 days before I clean and lightly sand the hull for the first coat of primer. Some small touch ups inside the centercase to do. It will get a lot of wear so a extra bit will help.
Time: 3 hrs
I also touched up some minor divot's around the boat here and there. So whats shown is the globs that have yet to be sanded off.
The stem area looks pretty good. its nice and even and the skeg I attached has a nice taper to the main stem with epoxy filler. I marked out where the screw holes are on a strip of wood and am using it for a template for when I make the Teflon/poly/plastic runner rub strip. it will run from just under the front pad eye to the centerboard case. then pic up again at the rear of the case.
A $1 spatula from the dollar store was used for making the radius on my large skeg fillets. The small fillets made on the planking and other places was done so by this little gizmo. It's for attaching to a caulking gun, but I just use it loose, I also put my epoxy in a old/used Ziploc bag and cut out a corner. like decorating a cake. this was I get even spread of filler and little waste. it's much cleaner to work with also. the excess is scraped off with the long edge and put back in a bowl for use in the bag again.
I clean it off when done and soak it in vinegar and wipe clean for future use.
The bottom section got rounded off for the tabernacle mounting. But mount hole is yet to be drilled.
A final sanding will be done just before I coat it in epoxy later. it was put back up in the rack for final work in a couple of weeks.
The gaff was first, being the smallest, if I messed anything up it would be not so much a problem to make a new one. 
I Made lines down the centers of each face and a line offset from each a distance I figured out as a guide to plane down the edge of the 6 faces. This Clamp being made of plastic has few uses for heavy stuff, but it's perfect for holding my items in place for planing and sanding.
This would then make 12 smaller faces. each small face would in turn get one pass with the planer doubling the number of faces again. 
This would all then be rough sanded with my palm sander with a 60 grit, and progressively to a smaller grit. 
Making the lines took as long as actual planing. but the lines were necessary to keep a nice fair line the full length.
The results were as I had hoped. I have yet to decide on the style of gaff jaws so the ends are unfinished. The Boom was done the same way. Though the boom is a different shape. I wanted strength but in not much larger diameter so I went with an ellipse of sorts.
Not to worry. It looks ratty when initially glued together, but knowing that it needs major shaping later the most important thing to look for is it being straight.
This is what I intended in my mind when I thought up the shape for the boom. COOL.
The points where I drill through the boom for the boom vang and main sheet blocks were center punched with the end of my dividers so i didn't loose my spot. Its where the backing blocks were installed inside. The outer end was rough sanded and to be finish sanded just before I epoxy it. The Mast once again was done in the same fashion, but over 18ft of it. A tight squeeze.
I think it turned out well for my first go at building a mast, boom and gaff from scratch. The dimensions from Johns plans were enlarged in diameter where i'm using wood instead of aluminum with wood plugs in the ends.
Travor, my longtime friend since we could walk, has been my partner in crime on many great voyages across our lake camping and fishing. We have always taken bacon and eggs regardless of the distance, I don't even remember ever breaking one with all the hiking and tossing around of kit bags. We took those trips in my first plywood rowboat. Basically a pram, but with floor boards flat so you could sleep in the bottom of the boat. The seat used for rowing sat in a slot so you could remove it to lay down. I only slept in it twice but it shows that you can sleep in a 9ft rowboat. It was built with plywood, nails, exterior caulking, and paint. None of this fancy epoxy etc. It never, ever leaked except when I punched a hole in it on a rock. My repair kit consisted of a few squares of panel board, some screws and screwdriver, and glue. 
I also rounded the rear portion at the edge of the case. The 
Once this is all glued and screwed in place, I'll plane the adjoining parts flush. the forward 
Cutting wood from rough cut virgin maple, laminating the maple then planing down to a flat surface then cutting to a template I made from scrap plywood.
The front 
In doing this I'll put the parts aside to concentrate on adding the epoxy fillets to the plank edges, screw holes, and general fairing of the taped seams etc. 
A layer of glass 
It will allow for several days of curing before sanding, in that time I'll finish the 
