Month: February 2021

Refit and glue the stem head back in place.

Spring the forward planks away from the stem. Re-fasten the inner planking then fit and glue the outer planking. Remove the two lower planks each side of the hull. Clean up the inner planks and glue these boards in place. Re-screw this area as well as the forward planks to the stem.

Almost exactly 120 years after leaving Auckland for Wellington on board the Elingamite on 16 October 1900, Rogue is back in town, and sitting in Wayne Olsen’s Horizon Boatyard shed, set up straight and true next to her initial 1892 competition, the Logan Gloriana. (Contemporary accounts of those encounters, and Rogue‘s Wellington adventures, can be found at Rogue‘s history.) A rematch is in the offing.