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What a great project. It won't be the last. I plan to build 2 Tadpoles for the grandkids and a Curlew for my wife.

Last Saturday my daughter and I launched Skeena in St Michaels, MD and spent two nights aboard, sailing with 7 other boats, leaving Monday before the rain. Her are a few pics. Skeena was amazing. I continue to get used to her. I do plan on changing the hatch to a sliding one like Chick and Amos. I'll discuss this later. Getting to spend a couple of days with my daughter is always special. Before we spent time sailing we were in DC checking out law schools! I felt a little guilty having a cabin, but not too guilty...... We were all vaccinated. Yeah! There was very little our last day, but I had to try the mizzen staysail. About the time I got her out it started raining, so I never had time to play much....... Life's good. Let the summer begin!

Because I didn’t think of it !!! I just looked it over and tried a hand-held dry fit. With the scooped blades — their forward (concave) sides fit real nice against the seat sides. Probably a better arrangement. Not on the floor of either cockpit and some foot purchase for hiking. Without some latching or “snap-in” mechanism — not as secure (from floating away in a tip-over) as my present arrangement. I’ll probably do it and have it both ways. But not until I’m in the mood to again messabout the boat. Right now — I just want to sail her. Thank you Don.

very Nice Build!

Hi Gira Gira, I got the profile for the wishbones from https://grabcad.com/library/wishbone-boom-design-for-classic-day-sailing-boat-1 (the measurements can be seen in Wishbone1png), and then adjusted the size to suit my masts and sails, plus a bit of leeway. I definitely didn't want to end up with the wishbones being too short... Whilst the CAD drawings are for a single-piece boom, I made mine so that they could be opened at the aft end. There's enough flex in the booms that I can open the aft end to slip it around the mast, and then secure the boom on that side with a bolt through the connector piece that is glued onto the other half of the pair. I chose to open the aft end as it was closer to being a straight section of the boom, so there wasn't much sideways force through the laminates. The contrast between Western Red Cedar and Tassie Oak would look great. I've found that Tassie Oak can spring back quite a bit, even when laminated (my rubrails are Tassie Oak, and whilst I managed with just two laminations it would probably have been better to make them in three laminates. So, thinner laminates for the boom would probably be a good idea, as would leaving it in the jig for a few days to let the epoxy completely cure, particularly now that it's getting colder here in Australia... Cheers, Peter

Graham, I have plenty of room at the dock behind my house in Lynnhaven inlet, if you need a place to stop, or any other logistics, just ask.