Sunday started with beautiful weather. I planed down some Douglass fir planks to make the pieces for the gaffs (whut holds up the sails, silly). The gaffs are straight with a wishbone bend at the rear to go around the mast. As usual, the wood was recalcitrant and didn't want to bend.
So you clamp.
And clamp.
And clamp..........................dammit!
I should have made the laminations thinner and will when I glue up the tillers. So we got one glued up. There is an old Tiki 30 gaff to the left of our gaff so you can see what it should look like. Then we glued the goose shelf in the head.
Boy, this is uninteresting.........Hey, we went back to the wood store on Monday for white oak for the tillers. By Tuesday the weather turned to cool in the 40's and spitty precipitation. I pressed on preparing the oak to laminate the tillers. I resawed the rough oak and planed it down show it should be nice and bendy.
 |  Tiller plans........boooooooring! |
I caught a chill, got sick, and lost a couple days. The weather was bad anyway. Ben pressed on and glued in the top steps in the forward cabins in each hull.
Port hull.
Starboard hull................... He did some hull sanding........I slept.
And Christmaficated the shop.......
Bob, the green faced reindeer. He shaped the rudders to get that airfoil shape. He started on Sunday and dodged the weather all week. He finally finished at the end of the week.
Made piles of shavings.................
and pretty patterns in the wood.
He got he shape pretty good. It takes a bit of finesse on powerful wood eating machines...
He had to tweak the aft a bit to accommodate the tiller blocks I had cut. I'll tweak them a bit more.
Budgetboater scored a couple cabinets and we worked reorganizing and cleaning. Our shop was a mess. We had stuff in the way and needed better access and organization. We put one cabinet in the cat haus to hold lesser used stuff and one in the main shop. By the time we finish, it will be perfect. Luckily, Budge has another boat to build: his Narai mk IV (heavily modified to accelerate build time).
We took a piece of crap shelf contraption that we'd cobbled together a while back and re-cobbled it to be a piece of crap clamp rack. Say that fast three times! This thing ain't pretty.
Quirky, cobbled crappy clamp rack! Al in all, it was a positively OK week. The two trips to the big city and my incapacitation discombobulated the working process. We press on We don't set deadlines, but this boat will be finished by a Christmas!
The Music ♪: Hot Club of Cow Town "Orange Blossom Special"
So we went up to Ft. Worth (Cowtown, USA) and saw them last night (they're based in Austin), just back from 3 weeks in England. Hey, Neil and Adrian, you had your chance.............
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