I have now been at the building of this boat 195 days. I'm guessing that I average about six hours per day so I have almost 1200 hours into the project. I am almost finished every carpentry part as I finished up the cockpit seats yesterday. I managed to get all the raw wood epoxy coated so I'll let that cure for another couple of days before I sand and paint these components. Today I will sand the inside of the cockpit and the seat boxes in anticipation of painting. Hopefully everything will be fine and I won't need to come back and recoat anything. I'm feeling ready to get this boat out of my backyard.