Flipped the boat upright on Thursday and spent the weekend working on the deck framing.
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Cradle construction
Before flipping the bull back over to finish the decks, I decided to rebuild the cradle. This cradle is in a single piece that can be bolted onto a trailer frame when the time comes.
Mast Track Installation
After 5-6 coats of paint, the masts are ready for the external track which is riveted in place with stainless steel rivets. Now I know why people spend good money on professional rivet guns. Setting stainless rivets with a cheap rivet gun is very difficult. All the tendons in my hands have been mashed to death and my forearms will be sore for a week. And that's after just one of the masts.
You can see in the pics here that the heads of the rivets stand a bit proud of the bottom of the track. That's because I ordered rivets designed for a countersunk hole. Oops. But they are snug and do not stick up enough to interfere with the sail slides, so there should be no problem. Fingers crossed.
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