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| Joseph receives a steaming white oak frame |
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| Peter inspects the clamping pressure as the frames cool |
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| Eleven new frames aligned and ready for 1/2" planks to be fit |
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| The dry-fit oakume planks are epoxy sealed as per the manufacturer's instruction - "marine grade" plywood ain't what it used to be |
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| Installed with Sikaflex, scarf joints with thickened epoxy and counter-sunk screw heads filled with vinylesther filler |
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| Existing cockpit removal |
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| Charlie inspects the condition of the structural members |
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| All floors and most frames aft of bulkhead to be replaced |
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| Demolition from around keel bolts |
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| New white oak fitted around keel bolts and to planking |
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| Steam box setup |
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| Teamwork and planning make bending the frames quick work |
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| Bracing method - no place to use clamps |
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| All floors and frames installed - now on to the seats |
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| Extensively rotted plywood - grooved teak pools water and penetrates the finish |
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| Failed miters - teak runners salvaged but cambered pieces were relaminated |
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| Completed jigs - 3 okume plywood laminates |
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| Teak milled to 3/16" and edge-glued with masking tape |
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| Vacuum bagging teak laminates to already bent plywood |
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| Joe mans the valve - Peter uses his sani-hose stethoscope to find leaks |
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| Fairing with machine - followed by 36" longboard |
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| Two coats sealer one coat Cetol - slide out for painting |
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| Miters and bungs |
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| Messed up on the book matching - but the grain blends well |
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| Rabbited Teak - sealed and sanded on the inside to ease finish prepwork |
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| Natural teak Cetol - not my favorite, but better than the old Cetol |
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| Splinted bowsprit from collision |
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| New bowsprit of laminated Wana trimmed and mounted |
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| Fiberglass repair faired - Awlgrip - toerails and rubrails cut |
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| Enamel and varnish on |
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| Just like new |
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| Rotten cockpit structure - to be entirely replaced |
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| Demolition of oak beams - route out rotten bulkhead sections |
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| Removal complete - new fuel tank mounts |
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| Bilge cleaning - new engine to be installed |
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| Heaping pile of rotten wood and discontinued hardware |
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| Oak beams w/ Okume underlayment - manhole placement - fitting mitered Sipo molding |
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| Manhole let into Okume - bulkhead doublers epoxied - continuing engine plumbing |
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| Spacing the teak |
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| Completed cockpit foot well - raw teak sole w/ varnished Sipo sides |
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| Convenient engine access and fancy woodwork |
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| Sipo figure detail |
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| Leaky planking from mast compression - replaced plank - bronze refastening |
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| Several sawn frame sisters - cotton and bunging detail |
