Here we're pouring concrete in. Note the many different sizes of pigs bandsawed to shape. That's my good friend Nick Litchfield handing me the bucket. He had just returned from a 4 year circumnavigation with his wife, Nancy.I had a lot of help that day, in all about 6 people, and we got something over 12,000 lbs of lead up 14' over the deck and then back down into the keel, along with about 750-800 lbs of concrete, all in in one pretty long and wearing day. I let the concrete cure for 28 days, and then welded 1/4" plate one inch above it in each bay (didn't want the welding to crack the concrete) then poured epoxy into that 1" gap and welded it shut. I allowed for trim ballast, in the form of welded tabs at bow and stern, and at b-max to bolt big stuff to, but didn't need it. Next