Author: patrickxavier

Refine seat templates. Fit seat blanks to hull and stringers. Machine and shape seats. Fit and glue on ends. Reinforce edges with fibreglass. Clean up shaping and ends.

Take template from floors. Cut rebates into maststep. Open out floors and fit maststep to floors. Shape maststep. Level boat in cradle. Make mockups of seats and engine box.

Mark out and mock up new rudder and rudder stock. Make rudderstock cap casting pattern. Straighten, drill for, and mount mainsheet traveller hoop. Turn infill for old stern tube hole. Prepare hole and glue in. Clean up old shaftlog end, make cap, and glue on aft new shaftlog to cap. Fibreglass and bed shaftlog on grott. Temporarily attach shaftlog. Prepare boring bar and cutter. Make cutlass bearing for boring bar. Bore hull and shaftlog for stern tube. Remove shaftlog and varnish on same timber for maststep.

Make gundgeon and pintle patterns. Shape shaftlog. Cut and scarf sternpost in way of propellor aperture, and glue in new timber. Cut back aft deadwood to straighten. Trim concave rudder housing edges, and glue on new timber. Cut new cove onto aft face of stern post and deadwood. Fit pintle pattern to bottom of deadwood. Dismantle deadwood.

Lift engine, remove mounts, and cut clearance into engine beds. Measure offsets. Make jigs and bore pilot hole for prop shaft through hull. Mock up engine/shaft propellor arrangement.

Make pullers and remove old prop tube and bearing/gland fitting. Fit shaftlog to hull. Get up jigs and bore through shaftlog. Make casting pattern for propellor shaft strut.