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Carlins look great! I'm confused with your previous post with what appears to be a drain going from the mast (or mast step maybe) through the hull. ???  Never seen this before. My $0.02: When people say a mast step needs to be drained, usually it just means into the bilge to prevent water sitting in the "wooden bowl" that the bottom of the mast is in. 

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On 8/25/2023 at 11:54 PM, gray duck said:

Carlins look great! I'm confused with your previous post with what appears to be a drain going from the mast (or mast step maybe) through the hull. ???  Never seen this before. My $0.02: When people say a mast step needs to be drained...

As Dave ( @Hirilonde ) says, the plans call for it to go through the hull, after thinking on it, I thought why not?

 

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Carlins sorted, a little shaping left to do on the transom top to blend all the differing angles in, next on the list was Gunwales. I had thought I'd scarf two bits of Jarrah together, and have a single piece I'd bend to the inhales. Jarrah is so short grained though, it wasn't long until I heard the unmistakable sound of a single piece of wood becoming two bits of wood again. So I resorted to laminating strips together. Makes a glue-up and positioning of 12 pieces (???) against the boat a lot more complicated, and the 3mm bite  the tablesaw blade takes meant I was not sure I'd have enough wood to get it done. I did, but that was all that was left over.

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Oh - a man can clearly never have enough clamps... I've taken the gunwales off to sand clean, hope to complete that tomorrow, then the decks can go on.... Still a long list but we are getting there.

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I've been meaning to show the stem since I fixed some time back. I cut a batten the width of the finished stem, drilled many small holes along the centreline, then wrapped it in plastic. Then I marked out the centre line of the stem of the boat, and the bits that would extend past the batten and sanded those back. Then after nailing with little pins, the batten bent to the shape of a straight stem. Backfilling with epoxy and fillings between the batten and the hull was relatively simple. Removing the batten and the stem looked like the photo below. A bit of cleaning up and now it looks like the second photo.

 

haven't been able to work on the boat for some weeks but now the sails are here, and the trailer ready to collect, I better get back to it...

 

 

 

 

 

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Coamings cut roughly and steamed into place; 2 pieces of Jarrah cut into 3mm strips. I'll epoxy them together with filler from the sawdust; it's pretty fine so should work. 

 

But the next real step is the rub rails at the bottom of the top strake. I've cut the strips out but still not sure how to hold them in place while the epoxy goes off. Brad pins will stop them sliding up or down, but will not hold them close the plank. While I ponder that I'll carry on with getting the deck trimmings ready to glue on. So rubrails, then decks, coamings, and gunwales, followed by deck trim. Then the wood is basically all in place. 

 

Sanding and painting the interior, varnishing the timbers and - well - getting close!

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I made my own simple clamps for the plank laps and attaching the sheer plank trim.  They are simple rectangular U shapes cut from scraps of 3/4 ply. The inside opening of the U was about an inch wide by 6 inches long.  You fit it over the lap or trim and lap, then force angle shims to tighten the piece together.

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