Catching us up

 The deadwood for the keel is two large pieces of Angelique (35 feet X 12" X 8") with laminated pieces of douglas fir creating the upper pieces of the keel from the shaft log forward.

The first picture is a couple of holes ready to receive the 3/4" galvanized keel bolts.  Some of these holes were quite deep 6' or more requiring some custom made drill bits and a really big drill.  The other challenge with these deep holes on either side of the shaft log (the hole through the keel that the propeller shaft runs through) is that you have to be nut on!  You do not want to drill into the shaft
log and you don't want to drill through the outside of the keel- or what is called a "drill out".  I had one.  You fill it with a  wooden dowel and try again.  Its very hard work and very stressful.

The next sequence of pictures shows the set up I used with scaffolding and chain falls to flip the keel on its side for various things like bolting flat bar onto the bottom for a grounding shoe.

 This is also the set up that I mentioned as a near death experience in my "safety" post.