Friday, February 8, 2013

Outerstem, Sternpost and Deadwoods fitted

What seemed like a formality, took quite a while to accomplish, however today I finally was able to view the the fruits of my labour.Getting the deadwoods to fit snug with the curve of the keel was a slow process, equally fitting it to the lead keel was slow, but somewhat easier as the lead keel is relatively straight.  I used a stick...
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Friday, February 1, 2013

Lead Keel bending!

Today I made a template from the lead keel and fitted it on top of the boat keel and deadwoods. Unfortunately, I didn't take a photo of the first template on the boat, but it showed that to get it to fit,  I would have to remove a lot of stock from the keel filler and even further down past the filler into the keel.The...
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