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Recycled organic boat part 8

Got the timber and have made some frames and glued them in. New transom beams. The deck is not far away. cheers Stewart

Clock

The trouble with scrounging is I come across other things that must be got like this clock, which was in pieces and needed a good home. It chimes on the hour and half hour and works a treat all for five dollars and a days work putting it together. I will go out tomorrow for the timber for the boat and hopefully I don't get distracted. cheers Stewart

Recycled organic boat part 7

Transom deck beam and fore deck beams made and placed on boat today.The timber came from an old double bed from the tip.Tomorrow I will have to scrounge some more timber for the deck beams.cheers Stewart

Recycled organic boat part 6

Today I managed to get the timber on the gunnels. The stem post was glassed in yesterday and it will be another day to do the final of the under deck timber work. Note the joins in the timber on the gunnels, If I was using new timber I would not have to have done this. This is the drawback of using old or recycled timber. On the middle photo it shows timber clamps with wedges to hold the timber while the glue dries. ...cheers Stewart

Recycled organic boat part 5

There is one thing I was told when I was younger by a friend who made steam engines. Is to make one piece a day. In a steam engine there is about 360 pieces and at the end of the year you had the best part of that engine. Some parts took longer to make that is the boiler, and if this took another two months then you had an operational locomotive in fourteen months. Same goes for boats its just one piece at a time, and in a boat there is about two months worth. Note there are two pieces made and glued on to the hull. I will try to keep up dating this every day so you can check on how long it takes to restore a boat like this one. cheers Stewart.