With our great and unexpected success in removing the six, 3 to 4 foot long 3/4 inch bronze bolts that hold on the tailfeather and pull together the deadwood and keel, we now needed all of our stock of 3/4 bronze rod to make the new replacement tailfeather bolts. Meanwhile, we wanted to finish up the last floors and frames in the main cabin and forward. Floor 24 was made and ready to install. It originally had 3/4 inch bronze bolts holding it to the keel. The keel bolts were generally 3/4 inch diameter, but there were some 7/8 inch and 1 inch bolts. We had some left-over bronze in both of those two sizes. Frame 24 is a “fat” floor near the middle of the keel. It seemed the ideal candidate for an upgrade to 1″ bolts. Not only would this use up our remaining 1″ bronze, we would be able to postpone an order for more bronze rod. read more