Toerails (now bolted and plugged) and bowsprit halfway through varnishing, with five coats of Uroxsys.Also, rudderstock surround, and plinths for Laurent Giles running backstay levers …… and ensign staff.Pattern for anchor chain boxTemplate for swim ladder …… to give the aging some prospect of reboarding after constitutive dip.
Toerail forward profile matches original.Anchor/mooring lines blocks, cast from Gloriana‘s. Starboard groove to fit 8 mm anchor chain.Bullseye decklight, Maxwell low-profile anchor chain winch (offset for run from block, and to centre hawse pipe), and winch footswitches.Deck annotated to starboard for placement of jib, staysail, and backstay block padeyes.Placement of Laurent Giles running backstay lever, beside jib winch base.
Keel ballast faired into hull and encapsulated in fibreglassSilicon bronze keelbolts, nine in total, the aftmost above showing forward of its irremovable progenitor.Bowsprit whisker stays and dolphin striker mocked up
Forward reinforcement, tying gammon iron backing to sampson post beams.
View aft, with engine removed for keelbolt insertionsBoom crutch pads
Mainsail and topsail to come. All but ballooner of Haywards’ Clipper Canvas (“the only stable polyester cloth in the world designed specifically for traditional and classic sails”) Light (7.2 oz). Looks, feels, and sounds like canvas. And the ballooner is from the excess of the Contender Superkote 130 light cream special run made for Ariki.
The restoration of Rogue (1892) 