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Today was spent cleaning the inside of the boat.

First I mixed up some Cabots Deckclean in a slightly stronger solution than recommended as there is a fair amount of grime in the bottom of the boat. Well I should have said was, as this solution with a stiff dustpan broom and a bit of elbow grease the bottom is clean and looks great.

I waited half an hour after finishing scrubbing and then hit it with the Karcher to blast it all away. After a lot of flushing with plenty of freshwater I was pleasantly surprised with the finished result.
A couple of days to dry out completely and then to apply a couple of varnish to seal it all up. I suppose that this will also help swell some of the planks.

Another thing that I noticed is that because the planking is plywood I don't have any split or cracked planks. Also the planks are showing no signs of rot either so that's a bonus too.
So all in all a productive day for a change

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First coat of thinned varnish on the inside of the boat in the bow section.
Looking at it it seems like its all soaked in so there may be many coats to fill the dry timber.
I am going to do Bow section so that I can glue in all the foredeck beams and then fit and secure (not glued) foredeck plywood.
This will enable me to fit the inner Gunwhale which means that the boat will be closer to its correct shape for fitting the midships ribs that need to be steamed before installation.
So we are getting there but its a slow process.

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Visible progress finally.

The internal Bow section has 4 coats of varnish. The last two were applied with the touchup spray gun. This enabled me to get in behind the ribs and really brought up the gloss of the varnish. Before the foredeck is finally finished I will probably give it another coat inside there, not that two many people crawl up under the foredeck to have a look!

So this afternoon I glued and screwed in the final two foredeck deck beams and the centreline deck stringer.

Tomorrow I may get the coaming fitted.

It's amazing how a couple of things being added makes a lot of difference. But there is still a long way to go but every resto started with small achievements.

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Good work. Ull get there before i finish mine by the progress you are making. Keep the updates coming. Brian

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Portside coaming glued and screwed in place.

Starboard one prepped ready to install permanently. If I get home from work early enough tomorrow I will see how far I go at fitting it permanently as well.

Then it's temporary fitting of the foredeck plywood and trimming it close to final size and shape.

I will take some newer photos and endeavour to post them.

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Tuesday night/Arvo the stbd side coaming was glued and screwed permanently in place.
Wednesday night the excess glue was cleaned off an the stbd foredeck plywood deck was screwed in place, marked out and the excess plywood was trimmed off.

Tonight the two foredeck plywood deck panels were removed and to get an idea of how symmetrical I have managed to get the boat, they were laid on top of each other centreline to centreline.

I am pleasantly surprised to note that at the first deck beam it is about 6 mm wider on stbd side and at the instrument panel deck beam it is 10 mm wider.

Not too bad considering where we started from with none of the deck beams attached to the boat.

Tonight I also glued and screwed in the two inner foredeck deck stringers.

The next major thing is to finish the nail and roving of the new ribs in the bow section. Then the foredeck plywood deck can be screwed in place semi permanently or at least until we replace the midships ribs, varnish the interior and turn the boat over start work on the outside.

The first job after rolling the boat will be the nailing off of the planking below the waterline to the transom.

So progress is being made.

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Well Christmas 2011 has been and gone. I wish that I could say that great advances were made on the boat, but I can't.

I was hoping to get heaps done but I had to redo the bathroom and that gobbled up time and quite a bit of spare cah.

What I have done is cut out the deck ply sections and fitted the port side sections.
Today I purchased another sheet of 6mm marine ply and if it's not too hot tomorrow I will cut the starboard side section and fit it.

While my daughter was home in Melbourne from her university course in Sydney I conned her into helping a bit with some nail and roving in the bow section. She wasn't too happy with holding the dolly but that's what family are for!!!

So bow section internally nearly complete. Foredeck plywood panels have been screwed in place again.This time so that we can plot out the deck planking and hopefully get the quantities of the Huon Pine and the Mahogany finalised.

Cheers
Peter

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Sunday dawns in Melbourne, prediction hot and rain later

What to do? I know set up bench saw early and impress the neighbours with my skill at making them know I'm here and working!! Now get up you lazylist abouts. If I'm up so are you.

So we cut up the plywood for the deck sheets and while I was about it cut out the sections that are needed to go across the deck beams fwd and aft of the engine hatch. It seemed the only fair thing to do saves getting the bench sw out again till next weekend when we may start cutting up the deck planking.

So we have a boat with a plywood deck right around the boat. It looks good even if most as to come off again to fit the midships ribs that need to be replaced and the complete steering cable setup before it can be glued, screwed and nailed in place permanently.

Gave up about an hour ago and spent time in the pool to cool off.

May go out later to tidy up if the weather cools off otherwise it can wait till tomorrow when we are supposed to get rain. I have outside work for the first couple of days this week.

Still it could be worse

Cheers
Peter

[screwit]

In my boat fitted some small 12mm tube in ti each side about 1200mm long for the cable to run though , that way less pullys needed to be used to guide the cables and less chance of the coming of the cent pullys.
Ross