I finally got the daggerboard trunk in the boat. Worked out quite easily, though my countersink makes holes that are a bit too big and the bottom screws did not pull the trunk very tight. I should still be OK given that I'm adding thick fillets around the daggerboard. The whole process took about 1 hour, mostly to make sure everything is square. Of course, as soon as I drove the screws, the trunk moved 1-2 mm so it's no longer as square as I would have liked. Yet another one of those imperfections I'll have to live with.
I also spent an hour sanding and rounding over the daggerboard itself. This was quite painful as I couldn't easily get inside the handle with sandpaper and there was quite a bit of epoxy goop in there. Again much work could have been saved if I'd been more careful when gluing. A bit more sanding left and I can epoxy it.
Time: 2 hours
Total: 106 hours
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