Great Progress! Coming along nicely. A few questions regarding your plans for structure. I see a break in the stringers just aft of the fuel tank. Are you running rigging through there and tying that back together. I would think between the weight added forward of this break and breaking the waves about this point, your going to want to add that longitudinal structure back. Additionally, did you already glass and re-tab the existing stringers back to the hull bottom? As the years went on, it seems they laid the stringers thicker. Just about every flatback that I have seen rebuilt has stringers that look quite beat up (cracked, snapped, falling apart) where the semi-v (72ish-89ish) typically has stringers that are in tack and just full of wet foam. I would naturally attribute this to a hull (12 degree deadrise) that cuts the waves better and doesn't bang as much as a flatback. However, I would bet that the stringers in the flatback aren't built quite as thick as the models built afterwards. Also, are you draining all the compartments to the bilge? Just my .02 for what its worth.