1-02
STARBOARD BULWARKS FORWARD
The poor shape of the top of the frames and beck
beams can be seen here. |
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1-02
FORWARD IRON FLOOR REMOVAL
The badly rusted iron floors come out taking most
of the rotten planking they rest upon. |
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1-16
FOREDECK
The foredeck comes off. |
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1-21
KEEL BOLT JACK
A hydraulic jack is utilized for to get the old
keel bolts out. |
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1-31
HORN TIMBER REPAIR
Back aft it is discovered that the horn timber has
some serious problems. A new section will be laminated
in. |
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1-31
COUNTER EXPOSED
With access being a bit hard to this area it is
not surprising that there is work needed here. |
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OAK
UNLOAD
The oak limber for the new frames arrives. We will
replace all 52 sets of frames with new laminated
oak. |
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DECKHOUSE
OFF
The deckhouse comes off, it is also rotten and racked
out of shape from years of the boat twisting and
hogging. |
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DECK
WITH HOUSE OFF
Access is looking better. |
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CG
PLANK STARBOARD AFT
We glue and screw in new oak to fill in the missing
wood from all the frames that were notched into
the oak keel over the years. |
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RUSTED
IRON FLOORS
You can see how much of the metal has rusted away. |
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RUSTED
KEEL BOLTS
This keel bolt was close to breaking. |
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CUTTING
ROTTEN STEM
The top section of the stem had to be replaced. |
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OLD
STEM
This shows why we had to put in some new wood. |
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VIEW
THROUGH THE BOW
A picture we hope we don't have the opportunity
to take again soon. |
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REMOVING
PLANKS
We start to remove the old planking. |
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BROKEN
DECK BEAMS
As the decks came off we found many reasons TRUE
LOVE needed to be rebuilt. |
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1-22
TOP OF IRON FLOORS
All these badly rusted iron floors that hold the
iron ballast to the hull planking will be replaced. |
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