This winter I stripped the hardware off the hull, sanded all the varnish off and drilled all the hardware holes over sized. I filled the holes with epoxy and sawdust and added two more coats of clear epoxy. I next re drilled all the holes to the correct size. Although I used silicone last year, I did not drill fill drill in every hole last year and had to fix many black spots from moisture that got under the epoxy. This is no easy job, but I recommend doing it the first time, it will add hours to fabrication time, but you will avoid any black spots. Most cant really be sanded away with out risking breaking thru to the next ply. On top of that I put 8 coats of varnish.
I added new rigging and bought a cover. I also added gunnel guard as I use this pram every day as a dinghy. Here are the latest pictures. With the addition of the cover and the new halyard rigging, I can now raise and lower the main sail and jib and mast all from where I sit. It was hard to go forward when solo. I can now take off the cover, pull up the mast and jib, then the main, and be off in 5 min. If it starts to rain, I can be under cover in the same time. I will upload a video later.
