One of the small jobs I have been able to get done on Mai Star II and restoring a small dinghy to help raise funds for the ongoing restoration of Mai Star II
One of the jobs I have been able to sort out this last week was to clean up and repaint the two hanging knees from Mai Star II. These two hanging knees were under the deck ahead of the cabin front and formed part of the framework which connected the deck beams to the hull frames in the position of the cap shrouds so that the stress on the hull was taken around the whole of the framework and not on a single position. Once I have made up the spacers for the knees they will be put back in position and bolted together through the deck beams and the hull frames to make put a ring frame. I am getting on with this dinghy's restoration and are now waiting for a piece of mahogany to make up the centre thwart, in the meantime time I will be working on the outside of the hull sanding it down ready to apply its first coat of hi-build epoxy primer hull before filling and fairing the hull. The woodwork as now got its few coats of varnish to protect the woodwork and now it is time to turn ...