Month: October 2021

Tinkering

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We’re marking time now, waiting for the end of COVID-19 lockdown (or essential travel permits) to enable out-of-Auckland rigger to attend with rigging.

  • Reducing the mast stays’ thumb cleats to finer proportion (see here previously).
  • Bronze mast fittings (from the top, spreaders, boom and gaff goosenecks, gaff saddle) back from polishers.
    Also, bottom left, swim ladder hinge (1 of 2) and butterfly hatch latch (1 of 4).
  • Mast bands for boom connection (aft) and ballooner pole (forward, as shown), twinned with offset pinrails.
  • Tiller, aft winch stands, and staysail sheet coaming leads back from polishers.
  • Anchor chain and warp locker; bolt ends rounded off; stainless steel eye before mast for tierod to mast step.
  • Anchor mounted.
  • Bowsprit fittings and aft mushroom vent.

Corrections and tweaks

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  • Re-engraved, right way up, and enamelled.
  • Anti-slip applied to 25 mm margin.
  • Forward sail stowage bench, winch battery box under; chain locker behind
  • Technology central.
  • Water strainer.
  • L to R: throttle; anchor remote control; lazarette hatch release; manual bilge pump; 12V outlet.
  • Winch battery box and circuit breaker.
  • Patterns for boarding ladder, winch stops, and pins for rail.

Chainplates, and other tinkering

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Original chainplates, painted and polished.

Mast shown is just a stump, for visualisation.

The real mast …

  • … at 6900 to the spreaders, …
  • … and another 3500 to the cap …
… is 10.4m from the mast step (10.5m in length, including the mast step chock), and 9.5m above the deck.

Then there’s the topsail spars, of cedar (ballooner pole to come).

The rudderstock cap has been engraved …

… but, regrettably, upside down (to be ground off and remedied).

Stops to be fabricated, to prevent winch socket spinning into the booby hatch sides.

Brass navigation lights acquired.

Meanwhile, Rogue’s restoration gets some publicity, in the Classic Yacht Association’s insert at pages 58-59 in the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron’s Breeze magazine (Issue 237, Sep-Oct 2021).

Oh, and I came across a photo of the pater familias.

Hallelujah, an inspection tour!

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Comments are superfluous, except to observe (re)construction work nearly is done, bar nonskid on deck and a few final bits and pieces.

And some sundry items.

  • Mainsail with original alphanumeric identification
  • Tufnol rigging blocks, numbered according to rigging system (there are 18: six for halyards; five for sheets; three for tacklines; two for topping lifts; and one each for runners and reefing line)
  • Original 130-year-old bronze chain plates, painted against hull, polished bronze above.
  • Boom crutch
  • Miscellany, from the top: mainsheet winches and stands; navigation light boxes for shrouds; gaff; whisker stays; mushroom vent; eye bolts; staysail sheet coaming leads

Lockdown 6

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At Level 3, things really start to come together.

Reinstated original koru terminating coveline.
Aft coveline termination is Morse Code for R(ogue).

Castings are back from foundry for machining. (Patterns here; drawings here.)

Mainsheet Murray winch bases, cast to fit around cockpit coaming, and spreader
Boom and gaff goosenecks, to be integrated with pinrail on mast

And the interior! Matt Price’s exacting cabinetmaking is absolutely on song.

I’m only slightly traumatised by the need for an antislip finish to the floorboards and companionway steps. Still, better than breaking my back.