In the past month we completed the frame and floors, placed the engine, installed the dripless seal, installed splines at the garboard plank, and initiated the plank removal necessary to sister frames near the fore mast step.
Engine Bed and floors raw wood Engine mockup fit Floors and Beds painted and walk around support New Engine Engine seated New water filter Installed
Dripless shaft seal installed Port Spline area Starboard Spline area Rudder and deadwood cleanup Deadwood pinked out Rudder filled out
Prep for destruction bad butt block area One foot of plank, first piece removed Partial plank removed foreward of butt block