Plan "A" for tomorrow to get to grips with working on Mai Star II

 Tomorrow, while many people will be taking advantage of a four day holiday, I will be working on Mai Star II, As my workshop and yard is closed to clients for the holiday it gives me time to get on with work on Mai Star II. The first job will be to clear the area around the front of Mai Star II so that I can get to the lower part of the hull to clear the plank seams of the old caulking cotton and putty so that when the ribs are steamed in position the plank seam will close up.Another job to get started will be to make up a pattern for the frame which is missing on the port hand side. Once that is made then I will be able to transfer the pattern to the plank of oak to make up the section that will become the frame.Other jobs.


I hope to get started are the drilling out the holes from the old copper nails and drill out the holes with a tapered plug cutter to take the tapered plugs which I will be making once the tapered plug cutter is delivered to my workshop. So happy days making tapered plugs and gluing these in the many holes in the hull where all the old copper nails were. Especially given that the hull as had many doubled and sistered ribs steamed into her over the years.

If I have time and the MiG welder works correctly I may be able to repair the steel frame work to put the cover back over the boat and keep the weather out of the boat, so that I can work on her even if it is raining.

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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.