The last few days have seen an hour here, an hour there, and some success getting the varnish off the hull with a chemical paint stripper.
I think at this point it may be time to make a wooden patch for the hull: Plane down a bit of Kauri to match hull thickness, make a patch with a long taper to the edges, shape the hole to fit the patch, bend the patch a wee bit to match the curvature of the hull, and glue it in..
Before proceeding on much more of the outer hull, it may be beneficial to start glueing bits and pieces back together inside the boat, truing it to a string line whilst doing that, and giving it a bit more strength. With the skin coming away from the framework in a bunch of places, and with the internal supports (deck stringer, cross braces, diagonal braces) all removed, the boat's pretty floppy.
Time to take the little hobby bandsaw out to the boatshed.
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