More work on power dory, new bottom and floors

 Scarfing the bottom panels together into one piece.  Scarf is 8 to 1

 What seemed like endless strokes of the plane...

 Finally able to join the two pieces.

The slight warp in the plywood is an advantage as it will help conform to the rocker in the hull, here it is upside down waiting for a layer of fiberglass before flipping over onto the hull,

 and here it is, all glued in place an trimmed to fit.

 Pretty lines, looks just like a dory should.

Another shot of the trimmed off bottom, and

 here she is being turned over.  The come-a-long at each end makes it easy.

 Not sure why this photo is here, shows the new center plank on the deck.

 Right side up showing off her new bottom

 hmmm, how did this get here

 Before inside of garboard was stripped by scraping and sanding with 60 grit in my dustless Fein RO sander. Wish I had bought it years ago.

 More sanding the inside.

Bow eye parts replaced and epoxied into the opening.  Replaces part the crumbled, the rest seems fine.

 Transom covered with 1/2 marine fir, top section will have to wait.

 Fiber glass in place, no need to make cuts, glass followed the lines perfectly. Surprise!

 Went well and looks great.

 Hull flipped for more inside work.

 Only bit of rot back where garboard joins transom. Dug it all out and then filled.

 Intermediate floors in place to stiffen bottom and support floor boards

 Another shot of floors.  Fillet has been put along joint of garboard and new bottom, weave filled and ready for next step.  All for now.

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.

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.

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.

More pics of the Power Dory (formerly Lake Champlain Launch)

Metal joint 

Another of metal joint

 

Not exactly waterproof glue

What I thought were ring nails are really screws.  Yea

View under foredeck showing original color?

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Lake Champlain Launch

Here are some pictures of the newly acquired launch

Here she is, with the cover in place

 Planking seems to be cedar, frames, stem, transom, white oak.

View form aft end

 The metal work hanging down from the transom was to hold the bottom of the rudder and was clearly a new installation to replace what must have been the original. The skeg is held in place by numerous pieces of strap iron.  All must go.

motor mount

 I will take a close up of the frames hardware.  Each joint has a cast iron piece that secures the members, never saw anything like it before but I bet someone will be able to tell me.  Might lead to a clue as to what or who built it.

looking forward

 Not sure what the pipe on the foredeck is for.  Seems to be brass and is threaded, but does not extend below the surface of the decking.

foredeck

 Sadly the coaming got damaged due to rough handling but may be salvageable. the pine planks used to  repair the bottom has some pretty large knots. The frames seem to be white oak as is the transom.  Wondering what the decking and planking are/  Cedar?

showing repairs to flat bottom

Nice piece of work on the cockpit cover. Someone, at some time in the past, loved this boat, and I want to honor that by trying to save her.

cover upside down, nicely made canvas on frame

 The sheer caught my eye and I found it very pleasing.  Funny how that works. Where the green cord passes through the eye is white oak and it is surrounded by a steel strap the extends from 6 inches onto the foredeck, up over the stem and down about 6 inches below the eye.  All seems pretty solid.

nice sheer