Ryder joined us for a couple weeks of…putting in bungs…yea, well, there are quite a few on this boat.
Category Archives: Planking
Whiskey Plank, yes!
So, the final plank (the Whiskey plank) was in the middle of the transom. John put it in on Tuesday, we had a little party on Wednesday. Life is good…
No shipwright to hand over a progress payment and a bottle of whiskey, but we still had a great time.
The whiskey drinkers
John faring and Ryder putting in bungs
The bow
The cake
Shutter plank(s)
Yesterday was an exciting day for Mahdee! In a frenzy of productivity (o.k., a lot of beating on the planks, bang, bang, bang…) John managed to get both port and starboard shutter planks hung!
We’d be having a celebration of the whiskey plank–except we still have a few planks to go on the transom. It’s so tempting to just knock those out, but we’d be smart to cut out the caprails and covering boards (made of the same mahogany) before the remaining transom planking…
