Building the hull – February 2011 –>

The 50mm wide slats are  sawn into 22mm wide lengths as the cladding of the hull proceeds.

A big job but satisfying! The size of the slats  allow them to be bent and twisted into quite complex curves.

it’s getting there!

Sawing the hull slats:      The 8 x 6m lengths of 125mm x 52mm were then sawn into 56 x 6m lengths of 50mm x 15mm

Sawing the hull slats:    4 x 6m lengths of 252mm x 52mm western red cedar were sawn into 8 x 6m lengths of 125mm x 52mm

………… January 2011

The keel… The dead-wood part!  November – December 2010

The timber for the keel is 100+ years old. It came from some verandah posts given to me by a friend.

It is wandoo and very heavy and dense, also it doesn’t float! (which is a good thing, I think!)

The gaff and the boom    October 2011

The gaff and the boom are made out of two lengths of Oregon glued together. The sail groove is routed in before gluing.

The claws for both spars are from the original design and is mandatory  for the gaff. The boom is allowed to be fitted with a conventional swivel goose-neck.  I am going for the original design, may be to be modified later. See how it goes.

Note the locating pin to make sure the half circle grooves  line up perfectly when glued up.

sail groove

Making the mast round:  The base is  85mm square for about 250mm  . Then progresses from a diameter of 75mm to  a diameter 85mm (about the middle).  It then tapers to a diameter of 60mm at the top of the mast.  If you are interested in the geometry of making a mast go to http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Solid-Boat-Mast

September– October 2011

Shaping the square mast:

The mast is laminated from 3 lengths of Oregon glued up.

It is first sawn and planed to size.  I marked the middle line first on 2 adjacent sides and from there marked the different widths along the length. This gave me a square ‘mast’ with a width of 87mm tapering from the middle  to 65mm at the end.  The next steps involve making the mast round.

The square mast

The seats are made out of Tasmanian Oak glued and screwed (s/steel ) and finished with jarrah plugs

The rudder and skeg are made from Tassie oak with a jarrah inlay along the edge’

They were made from 3 boards glued and feathered

Marking out the rudder and skeg

the planks, feathers and templates

The belaying pin board sits up against the front of the mast tabernacle.

The tiller is a proto type, still deciding about the shape.