Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Week 9-10

With the old keel bolts removed from the boat, I was able to glue 1/2 inch dowels into the old holes with thickened epoxy. The idea here is that this will seal the old holes and allow for a cleaner/fresher installation of the new bolts.

As the weather cleared and warmed up to the mid 50's, I brought some of the floorboards outside and began to get some red lead primer on them. While I waited for these to dry, I finished the fwd and aft hood end repairs by refastening the planks into the new frames I made. They sucked in nicely.

A big repair that is now complete was re attaching a broken off piece of the rudder. I glued in two 6 inch dowels into the broken piece, allowing 3 inches for both sections. When the glued dried, I was able to clamp and glue the broken piece onto the rudder. This was then sanded, faired with fairing compound, and sanded again. The tiller was also sanded and sealed in a thin coat of epoxy.

As well as these repairs, I was able to finish cutting and installing the cap rail section aft on the Port side. This came out nicely and the oar lock is ready to go back in. Work was also started on the new pine sole beams while I wait for a mis order of mahogany to come in for the keelson. The rest of the sole beams will have to wait for the keelson to get installed, which should be next week.

In other news, the crew from Shouldered Oar Films came by to do some filming of the Surf Boat project and interview me for their upcoming documentary film on everything wooden boats. You can check out their most recent trailer for the film here.

Week 9-10

Old keel bolts are removed and the old holes are filled with dowels and thickened epoxy




The view from the bottom



All the keel bolt holes filled in



With the nice weather over the last two weeks, I was able to begin priming the floorboards



The hood ends are repaired and re fastened



Rudder repairs are underway. Here, two dowels are glued into the broken off piece



And here the broken piece is glued back onto the rudder.




The rudder is scraped and sanded.



The tiller is sanded and sealed



Here is a new cap rail section with the female oar lock fitting chiseled out



Here is the cap rail repair installed.



John Stanton and Shouldered Oar Films comes by the shop to interview Captain Connor for their documentary film.



New pine sole beams are cut to fit.