Shiney Waterline
Bit of a Shine...
The Pitch - Hope Its Right
Can We Go Yet?
Motoring Away...
D Bomb On Lookout
Help, My Arms On Backwards!
Rosie Is Actually Awake!
Riding The Old Girl - She Missed It
Respek Yo
Ooooh, I just Love The Plaza
What A Sight
Tied Up Liberty Marina
45' Mast... oof.
Dork
Junkyard...
Had the Alternator Regulator Repaired
Running the Engine
Covers
Compound, Finesse, Wax
Covers, and Shine
Raw Water Pump Body
Oil Seal - Ouch!
Rosie Cleaning Pump At Lab
Shaft, Worn, But Rebuildable
Getting the Final Correct Angle From Bowsprit Cranse Iron
Hmm...
6 New Holes In My Boat
Pilot Holes
Not Bad... But Now that We See It, We Could Have Elongated It and Spaced Out The Bolts More
Not Tightened Down Yet... Forward Most Bolts Are Too Long, And Kiss On The Inside.
Matt Rosen '88 & Ben Eriksen '90 Examine Their Handywork.
BCC Fly Bridge !
Bowsprit with New Bobstay Design
Lotsa Woodwork to Varnish/Paint
Bronze Whisker Stay
New Bronze Thru Hull
Truck Chafe
New Bobstay Chainplate Design
Old Bobstay Gap Filled
Bowsprit Never Ending Paint Job
Oil Change & Impeller Swap
Move Jackstands To Paint
New Bronze Chainplate Aft
Short List
Varnish On Tiller
Filled Bow Gap Viewed From Inside
Still Got The Old Name
Altered Batt Box To Fit Group 31
Second Coat of Primer - Sterling 94U-1000
Moving Back Aboard and Cleaning Up
No Dink On Deck
Compounded & Waxed Dink
Some Sterling High Build Primer
Spreaders Prep
Before Compound & Finesse It
After Compound & Finesse It (not great, but surely better)
Some Dents Up There... Is that A Sign Of Decrease In Strength?
Fresh Life Caulk
This Is A Pain In The A$$ Job
How cute... Deck Paint... Unghh...
Saggy Varnish !
Mounted Mast Partner with Life Caulk - Used Less, Hope It Was Enough
Varnishing -- No idea How Many Coats Anymore.
Tiller Got Some Primer
Nice To See Some Bottom Paint -- She's Gunna Clean Up Real Nice
Nice Toosh
I did a swell job if i do say so myself
Re-Caulking The Forward Bitts
Except For A Chip Or Two It Went In Nicely
Fwd Bitts Ready for Caulk
Aft Dorade Cap Installed !
Fwd Cowl Vent Hole Ready For The Bedding
Mast Hole, Ready For Some Spartite and a Mast... oh and the metal band that mounts on deck
Fwd Cowl Vent Cover Installed... waiting for the life caulk to cure before snugging it down
Almost Time To Paint The Bottom
More Varnish...
Mock Up In Place
Roughed In Bolt Holes and Approx Length
Rosie Drawing
Rosie Did The Technical Drawings For Me
Can't Wait To See This Come To Life
Epoxy Fill in the Fwd Cowl Vent Hole
Second Round Of Epoxy Fill In Mast Partner
The Rig, Hiding Under The Dink (Blue Tape Indicates Top - Wrapped Parcelling To Shed Water)
No Room At The Inn
Coat #6?
1" Zinc Still Looks too Small
Zinc Bolts Revealed
Pausing For A Pensive Gaze Aft...
The Scene Fwd
Cleaned Out Caulking At Sampson Post
Epoxy At Mast Partners
Epoxy Filled The Holes
Sterling Is EXPENSIVE
Sanded and Scraped Port Side Hull
Some Rot At Tiller, CPES-ed It
I do believe this is #5, and CPES Primer on Aft Half
Wire Serving on Headstays, and Splices Near Water
Marlin Servings on Splices
Rosie came to help measure for the bobstay chainplates... yes i decided to switch back to machined bronze straps
Rosie can't help himself...
Varnish #3 (I think... see this is why I thought It'd be nice to keep track of which coat I was on via pics here... but apparantly, I cant even do that.)
Bowsprit Accessories Varnish Coat #1
Spreaders not in good shape
Serious Corrosion
Mast Step and Partner/Boot Lip
Relaminating Tiller... sorta
Look Like I know What I'm doing? I have No Clue...
Star Wars Game
CPES Primer... thought Id try it here before the LP paint
Set MAX PROP and zincs
Primicon Primer On Epoxy
Should Be A Zinc Here I Reckon
Varnish Coat #1
After The CPES Got Wet Again, I Made a Cover
Old Tang In Place For Measureing
Ground Down Epoxy Blisters
Truck Damage?
Filled With Epoxy 406 Mix
Mast Partner Routed Out, CPES Applied
Drilled More Holes For CPES Infusion
Not The Prettiest, But It Gets The Job Done.
Vacuum Sander, More Noise, Less Mess
Sanded to 120 Grit
Interlux Interprime For Varnished Section Of Sprit
Gunna Be Nice... Someday
The Star
Interprime On The Cockpit Filler Support (Cuz I had some leftover)
Getting Closer To The Shape I want
I Sware, After This One Last Structural Tweek, I'm Gunna Start Using Bondo!
Going To Be Nice, Taking Me Long Enough!
Cookin' Up Some Tasty Treats In The Galley
More Rot @ Mast Partner. Removed Stbd. Deck Box :-(
Holy Swiss Cheez Batman
Pattern Back On Hull For More Shaping, It's Gunna Work!
Casting Pattern Coming Along
Added Layer Of Mat and Wood For Tang
Glued in Doug Fir, Not The Best FIt, I Blame The Tools ;-)
Glued in Doug Fir
Filled Checks With G-Flex and Saw Dust From Doug Fir
Got A Little Carried Away...
Pulled Off The Pattern Prematurely
Still Needs To Be Built Up Of Course
I'm Scared It'll Crack
Port Bulwarks Scraped - Barely Done... This is Defintely The Biggest Project On My List.
Bowsprit Glue Joint Routed Out
Gluing the doug fir strip
Mock up of Machined Plate - Not Long Enough Though
If Machined, will have a sizable gap between bow and where plates meet
A new idea for getting a casting pattern !!
Epoxy casting pattern... will it work?
Epoxy In The Screw Holes, Routed Out.
Coat #3 - Epifanes Gloss
Stays'l Sheet Winch
Mast Step
Crack In Trim Tab on Freehand Steering Gear
Ben's 5/16' Boomkin Splice
Halfway There!
All tucked and tapered
Not The Greatest Entry, one set of bad tucks too... but good enough to use
Ben's First Decent Splice 5/16" Boomkin
SS Serving, Bobstay Lower End
Tarred, Waxed Marlin Bobstay Upper End
3/8" Splice Bobstay - Myles
Practice Splice Set Up
Strands Pulled Apart - 6 groups of 3 - cut center out
The Work Space
My 2 Practice Splices, and a near perfect splice above
Behind The Ceiling Stbd Aft Most Chainplate Removal
Substantially Larger At the Shrouds
Bobstay Chainplate Removal
Looking Very Naked Up There
Bobstay ChainplateRemoved
Bobstay Chainplate Design
Shannon 28 Bobstay Chainplate Design
Sterling Color Chart: Cloud White
Cleaning Out
Life Caulk
Check In Sampson Posts
The Scene Forward
Second Coat
Bowsprit Cleaning
Repairing Glue Joints
Dug Out Glue Joint
Some of the seam is OK, but checked right next to it
Routing Out Screw Holes
Routed Out
Darrah & Rosie came up to help remove the Sprit
Look Ma No Bowsprit
Getting Shorter
Ready to Work
Knock About
Good Thing My Car Matches
How Much more can I take Apart?
Aft Cowl Hole Faired
Nice Epoxy, No Exposed Core
Finally Got Some Varnish Laid
Hot Coated - Soaked It Up
Epifanes Matte 50& - Epifanes Thinner 30% - Penetrol 20%
Aft Cowl Vent Filled Almos
System Three Rot Fix
Removed More Rot
Filled the holes with Rot Fix
Dabbed in Rot Fix with Brush
Boomkin Ready to Sand & Varnish
Crack in Bobstay Chainplate
No Waterline Scribe - Epoxy Barrier Coat
Yeah, lots to do...
Final Layer of Epoxy in Aft Vent
Sanding Boomkin
Boomkin Sanded
Bow Roller
Delam In Sprit
Dink Floor Glued
Aft Cowl Vent - Good Core
Cleaning It Out To add Epoxy Barrier
Base Layer Of Loose Epoxy
Pushed Epoxy In With Brush
Gaps Between EyeBrow Pieces
Fwd Scuttle Caulking
In Poor Shape
Scraping Down Fwd Scuttle
Max Prop is Still Stiff
It's pretty in there
Max Prop Big Blades
Removed windlass to check for soft core
Core Looks Good Here
Crack In Windlass Bed Plate
Buffed Boom Test
One More Rotten Core Sample
Drilled To Top Of Core Only
Core Looks Good
Swiss Cheese - Think I Found the Extent
Drilled - Rotten
Drilled - Some Rot
Holes Too Small To Look Into
Not Too Bad
Aft of Dorade Hole - Rotten
To Stbd OK
Looks Rotten Up Near Windlass
Not Too Bad To Stbd
Lots of Holes
Map of Holes Drilled May 19th
Gap In Eyebrow On Cabin
Checks In Bowsprit
Rot At Bolt In Bulwark
Prepping Bulwark
Removed Vinyl Letters With Hair Dryer
Mast Core -- abused from mast removal
Dorade Forward Close To Windlass
2.5" Deep
About How Far In I've Gone
Removed More Rotten Core
"How OLD is that wooden boat?"
Finally Here
The dink made it
Road Mess
Hope the water in the muffler didn't run back into the engine...
Waiting to Unload...
After 4 hrs of waiting
Chafe From Trucking
Dorade Aft - Core OK
Dorade Forward - Rotten Core
Off-loading
Her New Home
Rudder Blisters in Epoxy Barrier Coat
