Glassing done...time to varnish

After glassing I also added two flotation tanks.  They came out OK, but fitting all those compound angles is harder than you'd think.  This weekend I varnished using a marine polyurethane.  I ended up thinning it 1:7 with thinner just to keep the runs to  a minimum.  It isn't all that hard, but there is a lot of sanding involved; first with the epoxy (nice clear shine goes away!), then with the varnish layers.  I was able to do two coats a day as long as I gently wet sanded at the end.  You really need to wet sand to keep the paper from loading up too much.  I did this sanding 100% by hand.  4 coats are on and it looks good.  I have the gunnels milled.  Next step is to lay them onto the boat with clamps. screw them down, trim the boat sticking up above the gunnels.  They I can pull the screws, rout the forms of the gunnels, finish the gunnels (marine grade danish oil.....want the matt  look next to the gloss of the canoe.).  The inside of the boat gets 3-4 coats of varnish.  Then just mount the gunwales and the seats and I am ready to go.  If the weather can hold for at least one more weekend, I might make it.