Monday, December 19, 2011

12-19.

No pictures yet, but this weekend we worked on the mast step, the king plank, and various other little parts and pieces.  The mast step will be a block made of pieces of maple, the king plank is a nice oak board from Seattle.  I'm learning family history as we go along - I had no idea my dad had worked at a furniture "oakery" in Seattle - that's where some of the random boards are from that have been in storage in the garage since before I was born!  There's no mention of the king plank on the plans, so we're just figuring it out step by step.  Had to cut down the spine piece to fit the board in, and we'll have to cut a notch out of frame 1 for it to rest in.  Also have to figure out how to get it to line up with the mast step so the mast doesn't come up at some crooked angle!  And we cut out quarter knees to go in the back corners of the boat for strength.

Today Daddy worked on a few more things while I played disc golf.  Glued the gunnels together (the boards we had were too short, so we  scarfed them to make long boards.  He also cut out some nice little supports for the edges of the centerboard cap/seat where the seat overhangs the centerboard case and cut out a couple test blocks to fit in between the sides and the inside gunnels (still not sure what these are actually called).

Sail has been ordered - egyptian cotton! - sounds exotic.  While the Blue Tang and my dad's Drascombe have dark red (tanbark) sails, I'm not a big fan of those, so we went with a white/off-white color.

1 comment:

  1. I love it. A piece of oak Jody saved from 25 years ago is now part of your boat! T&C

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