A small, inexpensive, throw rug, remnant, or runner, for cruising, can catch a lot of stuff, and then can be shaken out to leeward. Very nice on the feet during chilly mornings.
You can leave it on the dock for racing.
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Yes, get a rug. Cover it all up before this project happens to you:
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UNCLE!
After botching up one piece and seeing bad wood and delam in a couple others, today I turned the project over to a pro.
Thanks. She's a really nice boat but she has no sole.
At least not at the moment.
Two words: Stimulus check.
I confess: Early-on I experimented with the concept of covering it over:
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Oh, that's too bad! Ouch, indeed! And since you are briefly distracted by your own misfortune here's where I brag shamelessly about Dura Mater's upgrades, installed by the same electrician-magician who added what his sweetheart referred to as "bespoke electronics" to your boat:
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to a man of your elevated expectations, mere trinkets. But to DM and me? Luxuries long desired.