Monthly Report
Decks and Details
March 17, 07
With the winter Boatbuilding course rapidly drawing to a close, the shop is humming with activity and endless questions on the finishing details of each boat. Three boats, the Dory, Speedboat, and the Tomcat will all have plywood decks with varying finishes, while the Gartside remains an open boat. Cockpit coamings are one of the key details that will be completed in the next week. All the boats are receiving floorboards, thwarts, toerails, rubbing strips, many hours of sanding, and much paint and varnish.
These last weeks will see rigs completed from the roughed out spars, and oars built for some of the boats. The complex windshield, systems installation, and seating of the Speedboat is coming together. And the students are becoming familiar with the term, “90% done and 90% left to go” as they attend to the seemingly endless list of tiny details that characterize custom wooden boats.
(Tad Roberts)
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Boats Under Construction, March 2007
March: With the winter Boatbuilding course rapidly drawing to a close, the shop is humming with activity and endless questions on the finishing details of each boat.