Monday, August 31, 2015

Old bottom removed, ragged edges of the garboard trimmed, entire outside of hull has been stripped and sanded.  Some, but not all of the wrought iron clinch nails with heads proud have been set with hammer and dolly.  Progress.
 Both sides, stripped with hot air gun and scraper, then sanded with RO 80 grit
 Just a bit of the sheer strake left on this side
 The transom is a mess, holes from previous lives, hard white filler here and there, not to mention the top edge needs to be replace.  Cover the whole transom with 1/4 inch mahogany ply?  Just Veneer?
 Attempt at replacing the only broken frame
 New deck beams, Closest is sawn and coated with shellac, center is laminated in place, both spruce.  These two replaced the originals which did not inspire confidence.  The center piece of the deck also had to be replaced.  Ripped it out of a piece of spruce (original appears to be spruce).
 View along the side of the nicely stripped and sanded hull.
 This one shows the sheer, I like it. As I work I ponder the application of electric propulsion.
And another.  Mess on the floor is getting ankle deep, must stop and clean.
 Standing at the stem, shooting towards the stern. Below, a view of the foredeck.

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

This is part of the variety of fasteners found when I dissembled the recent repairs to the hull.  Missing are the rusted finish nails.  The screws were square drive, rose drive, and phillips head.  The nails; SS ring shank, cut nails and wrought clinch nails. Found myself constantly changing bits and various extractors as I went along.

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Keel, held in place with an assortment of angle irons, several kinds of screws, nails and glue. Stuffing box was anchored with two SS bolts that did not seem to be attached to anything. Bottom in this pic has been replace with 1" rough sawn pine complete with several large knots.

bottom removed, last frame aft is badly damaged and has since been removed.

New and old sections of bottom planks.  All have been removed. Lower edge of plank left with a ragged assortment of nail holes.  Nails were wrought iron.  Interesting to discover the laps were all nailed with wrought iron clinch nails.

Old coaming has been removed, too badly damaged to save, no real rot anywhere in boat except along the bottom edge of garboard near stern.

last frame before transom, part has been remove, showed the "dory clamp" which could not be removed without doing more damage so my trusty pull saw took it out.

lapstrakes are remarkably free from paint buildup. photo shows transom knee and remains of steering cable as well as new (now removed) pine bottom. The yellow stuff is foam in a can that previous owner used to fill any gaps in his work.