All was going really well as you can see from the pictures, and we were down to a few final items before launching. So, realistically, considering it's us, what would you expect but another minor catastrophe?
As any Mirror owner will tell you, they're only a 1/4" of ply thick, and a couple of pirates jumping around inside, especially when it's propped up on paint cans, isn't going to work out too well. Predictably, it didn't.
Basically the damage was as you might expect if someone put their weight on the boat while it was supported on paint cans, This was a real bummer as we had hoped to sail it this weekend. Oh, well, we've dealt with worse. We'll be patient (or at least try).
(1) First step in the repair was to clean out the hole to remove splintered wood, sand back to wood, and epoxy/clamp the wood where the ply separated.
Moral of the story: keep your garage door shut!
(3) Once the actual repair was solid, onto the fairing stages. After a light sanding to remove any errant strands of fiberglass matting, to remove any undesirable bits, and to prep the edges, once again epoxy/407 was liberally spread on as smoothly as possible ready for sanding/primer/paint. We applied the 407 mix with a paint stirrer (the free type from the paint store), pretty much as if icing a cake. Worked well.
And here's some shifty looking character who looks like he's got no business messing with boats.