Mark Rendelman

Todd hi! I guess I got lucky on my bow sprit tube it came off fairly easily but I did use some blunt force to get it off the mold. I cut a block of hard wood to use as a tapping block placed it at the end of the tube and hit it with a dead blow hammer driving the glass tube off also a strap oil filter wrench will allow you to turn the tube without application of pressure at any one spot while your tapping it. But to go back a step when I made the mold I wrapped a couple layers of duct tape around the mold wit a wrap of Teflon tape on top to keep it from sticking. Back when I was working

0Well it’s been snowing for the last couple of days and with my wife’s health issues I have not been in the shop for several days but things have gotten brighter and I went back to work installing the main tabernacle and mast and bowsprit tube

Well I guess that’s it pig stick it is

Ok fine the link shows me what a pig stick is for live stock but why do they call it that for a nautical term why not just call it by what it is a short flag staf ?

Why do they call it a pig stick

Nice work bench the floral arrangement adds a nice touch 👍 HAPPY HOLIDAYS 🎄🎁🇺🇸

Welcome to the group and best of luck in your under taking be sure if you need any advice their are many years of combined experience out there. mark

Ear plugs are a lot less trouble 😊

Hello! that sounds like a question for Alan Stewart or graham, and welcome to the community mark

Well the boss calls it TURQUOISE and their is no arguing about it and since iam not a naval architect I don’t always get the boat parts named correctly.

Well the boss calls it turquoise and I will probably finish the sides up to the roof and paint the top white trimmed in turquoise with some non skid stuff mixed in for good measure

Hello, hope everyone is staying safe and that this will end soon. Quick update installed the rudder/tiller and the port side seat top will be working on the ice box to get ready to glue down starboard seat top and the cockpit floor. stay well mark

Hi, and hope everyone is well I am about at the point that you are the bottom of the hull is done rolled her back over made the new hull support and once again started working to finish the inside I have built and installed the rudder/tiller assembly and just yesterday glued down the port seat top the starboard side is still under construction with the ice box being built . Your boat looks great and unless you have built one you have know idea how much work it took to get there. Hope to see next mess-about I’ll try to be there. mark

You just can’t trust the printed word anymore mark