You certainly know boats! Like many things I just dabbled for little while. I could see how it could become a way of life. I really only learned to crew the 505 - weight hang on the end of wire! I can helm just well enough to rent Hobie 14s when we have gone to Mexico and Hawaii. I will keep the Marina Sailing in mind. We current live between Sacramento and Lake Tahoe but our plan is to move north of San Francisco - probably ten years from now. By then I will be 55 and hope to be in a position where I don't have to work as much. At that point sailing would become more viable; however I am not sure if I will be up to sailing the fast dinghies. I used to by Wooden Boat and just be in awe of some of the boats in that magazine. I remember a Flying Dutchmen which looked kind of like a bigger 505. I can picture myself working on a wooden boat. The buddy of mine who I co-owned the 505 actually built a Clancy which is a little 12 ft dingy that was on that Woodworking show on PBS (New Yankee workshop?) - he did a great job but I don't think he ever put it in the water.

Looking at your rudder/fin your joints look tighter than mine. When you fit the 1/8 x 1/4 do you cut and sand or are you proficient enough to just cut the accurately with a razor blade? I seemed to spend a lot of time sanding. How much glue do you use. On the elevators I overglued the 1/8 x 1/4 and kinda created a fillet of glue.

Just checked the weather - looks like it will be flyable in the morning; so it will probably be later in the week before I get time to keep building.