Planking pictures from late may are on the Mahdee website. Click here and follow the link to the “more recent planking” to take a look!
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Mahdee has moved.
Mahdee made the move to her new boatyard “home” on the 13th and 14th of June. Here’s a picture of her on the truck. This is the first time we’ve actually seen Mahdee’s planking as she has been inside tight quarters in a shed with only about 18″ on each side of her widest beam. We were very excited! to finally see the planking. We could also see the little bumps and warbles in the planking once she was “out in the light”…quickly John and David were talking about how soon would it be that they could “cover her back up!” so people wouldn’t see her hull until they were finished with her planking.
More Planking
Here are a couple pictures taken in the last couple weeks. Yes, that’s a really, really long plank that John is putting on the boat. And yes, it’s really twisted to sit properly on the frames. It is the garboard strake and it’s about 27′ long.
David is making white oak butt blocks. Here he’s got a stack of 3 in front of him and looks like he’s having way too much fun. He’s done 40 of these so far. Each one has to be fitted between the frames and hollowed to match the inside of the hull. They’re all slightly different because of that. He replaced the old ones and of course all the new planking require them too.
