Month: April 2021

Rudder

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New rudder blade …
… of fine proportion.
Bruce Askew’s cast bronze pintle.
Recess for strap.
Lockers fitted.
Port locker including fiddled half-depth shelf.
Original chainplates (including half-round sections to continue hull mouldings) located in position.
Mast position just aft of blank and forward chainplate. Hull/deck intersection glass-reinforced.
Mast position located directly above floor, at aft end of mast step plinth.
Ringframe pattern co-located with mast and forward chainplate position (mast step removed for ringframe’s construction).
Stem reinforced in position for dolphin-striker bobstay tang.
Courtesy of the 1904 Charles Bailey Jr Ngatira‘s Steve Horsley (thanks Steve!), patterns for casting (from left to right) the bowsprit’s whisker stay supports and dolphin-striker, deck padeyes, mast stay thumb cleats, and bowsprit cranse iron (Bruce Askew’s cast version (shown) deemed too tapered to maintain desirable bulk).

Ballast

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Ballast form sent to foundry for lead casting; fitting new deadwood of Alaskan yellow cedar; inserting pintle at bottom of sternpost; forming rudder blank; constructing port and starboard lockers, picking up bottom scribing line from located stringer, one with internal shelf, with doors to match companionway/enginebox panels.

Starboard
Port
Showing temporary props.
Locker door (x 4).

Counter, and glassing

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Cosmetic augmentation of counter, thrown off by original stringers’ imperfect alignment (compare prior posts’ photographs of counter). Hull coated with two layers of 420 g double bias fibreglass with peel ply. Preparatory realignment of cove line. (Meanwhile, unseen, second, third, and fourth revisions of sailplan (for vertical-cut main and stay sails, and mitre-cut jib and topsail), and deck layout, spars, and rigging plans development.)