Back to Mai Star II restoration after a week away on the other restoration project

 Having been away doing the other restoration project, namely Chance up in Woodplumpton in Lancashire, It is now time to turn our attention to Mai Star II once more and get the ribs and frames sorted out in the port side forward section of the hull and the hull sorted out.

Especially in areas like in this photo where the plank as been rotted away at the joint between two planks that are butted together and fixed on a frame and not a butt block. Also the planks have moved so the planks are not laying against the frame as they should do  and the hull looks more like a clinker build boat than a smooth carvel hull.    


One of the major  problems with as old as Mai Star II is that many of the copper nails and other fixings of the hull have stretched over the years and have aloud the hull planking to move and rather than sort the fixings out along the way over the years, she was caulked more and more as the planks moved until this would not work anymore and we end up with the hull in the condition that Mai Star II is currently in. So as part of her restoration  there will be a major refastening of the hull planking with fresh copper nails and roves and renewed fixings in the frames .





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Work done today on Mai Star II

Making patterns of the two foredeck lodging knees and inspecting the deck bems to see which of them can be salvaged and which need remaking.

The frame and inner hog repairs now done and now its time to make up and steam the ribs in place.