Stupid things happen to those who try to do to much in a day. I had ran a high amount of hours at work and
stretched time at home just to get a chance to get the boat on the water. I went to to one last final fit of mast with sail on and try all the lines. Set the boat on the lawn and went to put the 22' mast in place when the boat rocked on me lost my
balance and the 22' took off and
snapped the nose off the X deck. Probably the most heart breaking moment of all my works. I have broken stuff not like this. Epoxied it back together and then came up with a real nice way to add structure back. The final fix pictures will come later. The matter is not how bad you break it. It is a matter of how you recover and fix it. The key is I kept all scrap and it saved my life as far as final fix.
Well it does float and it will sail from this point I need to rerun some of the lines. Line, hard ware, and better pics to come as soon as I get time to do more head
scratching.
THIS PIC HAS THE MAST AT THE WRONG ANGLE! I did fix it new pics show the correct angle. Thanks to Dix and Baxter sails helping me to understand
correct the issue. How I got it wrong? I drilled a two small holes in the deck
panel to mark center point for the mast post steps before I set a the deck
panel so I knew where the mast frame post were. I then set the x deck not knowing it could would vary a bit. I set the mast post steps exactly on center of the drilled holes. Basically ended up resetting the mast post steps about a quarter inch back towards the stern after I finally
realized the x deck was a bit off its set.
Detail pj#.
The next couple of pics are detail of final boat work. It literally turned out so good I could not get a pic to turn out with out a reflection of something showing up on the the boat. 
Rub rail and bright work detail. Just wonderful final out come. Lots of hard work, sanding and detail. 
Yey what 22' worth of mast really looks like.
Next couple of pics are deck pics. The last blog will show how I came up with the V it looks really good complete with all bow spirit goodies in. Note all hard ware is on in third pic went on really fast also note the cedar/pop mix on the rub rail.
Stupid things happen to those who try to do to much in a day. I had ran a high amount of hours at work and stretched time at home just to get a chance to get the boat on the water. I went to to one last final fit of mast with sail on and try all the lines. Set the boat on the lawn and went to put the 22' mast in place when the boat rocked on me lost my balance and the 22' took off and snapped the nose off the X deck. Probably the most heart breaking moment of all my works. I have broken stuff not like this. Epoxied it back together and then came up with a real nice way to add structure back. The final fix pictures will come later. The matter is not how bad you break it. It is a matter of how you recover and fix it. The key is I kept all scrap and it saved my life as far as final fix.
Well it does float and it will sail from this point I need to rerun some of the lines. Line, hard ware, and better pics to come as soon as I get time to do more head scratching.
THIS PIC HAS THE MAST AT THE WRONG ANGLE! I did fix it new pics show the correct angle. Thanks to Dix and Baxter sails helping me to understand correct the issue. How I got it wrong? I drilled a two small holes in the deck panel to mark center point for the mast post steps before I set a the deck panel so I knew where the mast frame post were. I then set the x deck not knowing it could would vary a bit. I set the mast post steps exactly on center of the drilled holes. Basically ended up resetting the mast post steps about a quarter inch back towards the stern after I finally realized the x deck was a bit off its set. 
