I'll talk a little about the deck house and finishing work that went into the boat.

the deck house is built on to the deck and lifts out of the hull like a lid:

construction was pretty simple, its just built out of sheets of balsa. the smoke stack is a piece of pvc pipe:

I also added some detail inside the deck house:

I also mentioned I had some trouble with the skeg. I'll talk about that here. as you may have noticed in the drawings the skeg is a bit of a weak point, and sure enough it broke off during construction. to fix that I added the aluminum blade along the keel seen here: