This Is What Happened!

The white blotches on the boat is glue that's been rained on a bit too much. The fronds didn't come un-bonded, but just turned chalky white. It seems like the polish coating of the glue was washed away just leaving the raw glue alone. I decided to cover the boat with the sail because I didn't want the glue to get washed away layer by layer. The wood glue that I applied to the boat is water resistant, but  the rainwater must have created a small puddle between the fronds. I'm looking into a wood treatment that's used to protect wood from the elements.Even though the boat got rained on, the fronds are still well bonded. I can't allow anymore rain to fall on the boat because the water will eventually strip the glue of it's bonding strength.
I'm also doing some other building experiments with the fronds that's left over from working on the Auset Fronds. I call it a Fronds Floor. A neighbor wanted to know what I was up to today. I told him just the usual suspects! The fronds are from different variety of palm trees. Some fronds are more stronger than others. Even though some fronds are quite hard, they still broke in half when hammering a nail into them. Some are extremely hard making them very ideal for building a hull with. It's been really too cold to work outside, but I can still work on the pedal mechanism and boat mats indoors. I still need to finish adding some fronds to the sides of the boat. I really didn't build the boat with a waterline, but hopefully the boat will sit high on the water from having" Noodles" (foam rubber floating pool tubes underneath it.) I'll know when I push it into the water on it's first launch test.