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1. Inserting screws in the first plank at the beginning of day 2 | |
2. Todd Skoog our instructor helps out with screws on the transom |
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3. Nancy making measurements for adding the middle plank. | |
4. Adding a piece of molding to check the angle needed for the top plank. |
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5. Finish work on the top plank. This one has to have a rabbit cut so the plank doesn't overlap, but instead is even with the other planks. | |
6. Nancy sanding bottom before turning the boat over. |
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7. Todd helping to take apart the mold we constructed to build the boat on. | |
8. Beginning to shape and fit the breastplate. |
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9. Nancy sanding the inside of the boat. | |
10. Nancy epoxying the daggerboard trunk |
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11. Uncertain, but probably trying to get a little praise for what a good job I'd done on the seats | |
12. The caravan of boats stopped at Todd's house as we left Saturday. Ours is the last car. There were actually six finished boats. |
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13. The boat comes back home. Lots of work yet to do. | |
14. Jump to 12 months later ane we're rigging our Shellback. |
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15. Nancy is probably pointing out that my rigging doesn't look much like the example in the Shellback book. | |
16. Finished "Ruckus" 3 days before the John Gardner
Small Craft Workshop at Mystic Seaport. Still had to get a trailer hitch,
trailer, and test to see if she would sail.
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17. This is Tom Gillung sailing Ruckus at Mystic Seaport just before he earned his nickname - "Crash". The strange color in the sky is because the camera went under water shortly after this picture. |