Boatbuilder

 Working on the boom gallows with Francis LeVangie   

 I have spent About 6 hours of sanding the footwell and chain locker since the last post. Then I epoxied and varnished the tabernacle. Also put a coat of pettite undercoater on footwell, outside of the cockpit bulkhead and chain locker.  Also put another coat of spar varnish on the rubrails.  The major jobs left are the boom gallows, mast and boom.  She also has to be flipped over, fiberglassed and painted underneath.  

 Painted the companionway hood, hatch cover and the (above the rubber rails) top sides with undercoater. 

Put a coat of varnish on the top of the rubrails and a coat of Petit undercoat on the companionway hood and hatch cover. 

 Spent three hours sanding the rub rails and then coated them with one coat of epoxy.   Also working on the companionway hood.  

 Last strip of mahogany put in place on the starboard side. Now waiting for the glue to dry and then it’s sand it up and varnish it. 

 One side of the rub rails completed and only one layer to do on the other side. 

 OK so I have one strip of mahogany on each side for the rub rails and today I put one layer of Sepele, which is unbelievably harder,  on the port side. It was hard to get it bent in place and I had to use longer screws. 

 Put the first piece of mahogany rail on the port side. Hard to bend around the bow. The more length that sticks out past the bow the better.  It is holding. Hope it glued up well.  The Sapele I had clamped in to bend it for dry fit. Would not force it right into the bow.  After being there a couple days one of the two length failed.  See picture. Not sure I am going to be able to bend the Sapele to get it in place.  

 Got the mahogany from London Lumber in Dieppe.  Milled it to get two pieces of 1 - 1/4 x 3/4 x 9 feet, and two pieces of 15/16 x 3/4 x 9 feet. Have it scarfed and glued up. 

 Doing a dry fit bend of the Sapele for rubrails. Driving to Dieppe to get mahogany for the other four pieces of rubrails tomorrow with Frank Camm. 

 Finished  cutting the eight by one for the scarf joints in the mahogany. Mixed up some Epoxy and clamped them together.  One side has two scarfs (three pieces) and the other side has one scarf (two pieces) to get about 16 1/2 to 17 feet lengths. I also chose to scarf them with the natural bend so that it would be bent towards the hull  the whole way along.  Off to Moncton this week to get some African Mahogany. 

 Back at it.  Been watching the rebuild of Tally Ho on YouTube. It has inspired me to get started again. I spent a few hours milling up Sapele for the rubrails. I think I will do a layer of mahogany then Sapele then mahogany.