We enjoyed a great afternoon and evening sailing on Stargazer (our Rawson 30) on the 1st of January.
The daily grind with all those laminated frames
This morning, David and John started the week by pulling the 16 frames they laminated in the previous week out of the boat and sanding the excess epoxy off the frames and applying filled epoxy to any voids found in the frames. While John was sanding, cleaning, filling, David was moving the “alligator boards,” putting in more floors, cleaning tape and epoxy off of floors and clamps, and smashing his fingers (something about that peening??). The results are looking great. Tomorrow, more laminating of frames into the boat! 6 more to go and then….onto the engine bay and working on the counter timber.
Those laminated frames are getting really long!
Got the clench rings
Well, I found them…I ordered 2 dozen…with the New Year’s holiday and the post office being closed in reverence to President Ford, it took a few days longer than expected for the express mail package to make it here. Now, they’re here! and David’s been installing them in the new floors mid-section of the Mahdee (last Thursday and today). See the pics of clench rings on drifts that will be installed and of them installed in the floors. David seems to be muttering a lot about all the peening required, hum…
Reference:
Bronze Clench Rings?
Filed under: We need… — Brenda @ 1:19 pm
5/8″ Clench rings on drifts getting ready to install (above)
Installed (below)
