Interior and engine work

  • Prime and top coat keel plug (4 coats)
  • Remove spikes from keel, forward floor/bulkhead, and remaining floors
  • Lift in engine
  • Make templates for engine beds, floor #0 and engine bay floors
  • Machine mahogany and keelson
  • Make, glue, clean-up, shape and fit engine beds, floors, floor #o, and blocks to floor #1, and shape and sand all
  • Everdure floors
  • Scrape bilge, forward and aft
  • Scrape pitch down to below keel top
  • Measure and collect copper for floor bolts
  • Arrange manufacture of nuts and washers
  • Remove engine, propellor, and shaft
  • Seal flanges and through hulls

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Floors and keel plug

Floors

  • Plane to template shape
  • Fit to hull
  • Make infills and tingles, and glue together
  • Fair tingles to floors
  • Mark out for bolts
  • Bore and counterbore floors and keel
  • Clean up floors, sand and radius

Scrape paint from bilges. Remove engine beds

Keel Plug

  • Make bulkheads and template
  • Assemble and glue in foam
  • Shape, fair, and fill foam
  • Sand filler and refill

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Getting ready

  • Remove bowsprit
  • Prepare engine
  • Tow to Seaview Marina
  • Remove engine and standing rigging
  • Build cradle

  • Slip
  • Waterblast hull
  • Remove internal ballast
  • Pump out bilges
  • Load onto transporter
  • Deliver to outside workshop
  • Transfer into workshop
  • Remove keel bolt nuts and washers
  • Remove keelson
  • Drill around keel bolts
  • Wedge keel off and cut bolts beneath hull
  • Drive bolts from hull

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