You know, it really helps to have the right tools. And you know what helps having the right tools? Money. I dont got none of that, so I have to make do with the tools I have. And sometimes that is a ridiculous process.
Here I am trying to level my handheld power drill in a slightly broken garage sale drill press with a bit that isnt quite long enough to go through the piece.
I have to drill bolt holes in the skegs. Then I have to drill through the newly fiberglassed and sealed hull to insert the bolts through structural members in the frame.
First I drilled a countersink to hide the head of the carriage bolts, then a hole through the skeg.
I placed the skegs in position on the hull, and then used a long bit to drill through the skeg into the hull and into the structural member of the boat.
Then I went under the boat and countersunk all the receiving ends of the bolt holes.
Actually, Im lying. But thats probably how I would do it now if I did it again. I doubted the accuracy of drilling down into the hull from above, so I marked the desired hole locations under the boat and drilled up. Then I marked the locations of the actual holes on the skegs. Then I took the skegs into the barn and used my sketchy drill press to drill the bolt holes in the skegs.
After all this stressful drilling, I finished the skegs with stain and a couple of coats of UV blocking polyurethane.
Next we install the skegs in the hull. Not once, but twice. Ahem.
