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Not a gaffer, just a Oh Joy to winward in 20 knots. Yes, the fenders got knocked loose but I wasn't sending anybody after them until we got out of this.
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This project was a non-starter. The owner picked up a Viking 38 to restore instead. As of now, it's on hold as well.

Always a pleasure, both the work and the sharing...

No problem Garret.

Sure. PPG's Omni line. There's an overlay of Urethane clear as well. It's a very soft clear and very flexible as well as buffable. The key is the multiple coats of primer underneath to fill the...

I'll get more up. The paint is an Acrylic Enamel. Good tough coating yet still flexible enough for a wood boat.

I have some from when she was still in the shed.

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After 94 days, we rolled Kettenburg 50, hull number six, "Happy Talk" out of the tent. Once we found out the owner couldn't meet his timelines or the PT Festival, we slowed down and did a little...

Some hammer work took care of that.... ;)

It was exactly 54.5 hours @ $40 plus materials...

Thanks Ian. BTW, there is a bronze backing plate behind the stem, it's just not shown because I didn't wanna crawl my big ass back in that tiny hole again.

Ok, now I get to play Blacksmith... I also had to cut in a recess to fit the new tang top, which created another issue. It left 1/2" gaps to each side of the tang because the back was wider than the...

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As some of you folks recall, the Lady suffered a forestay tang failure while under sail to windward. Luckily she didn't lose the rig and was able to limp back to us under power for repairs. Here's a...

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Nice, will be following this one...

Now that I've used the Fein, I won't pick up the sonicrafter. Much easier on the hands and ears.

Jay, thanks. I'll do that if Obie can't find my wood soon... It'll give me an excuse to drop by PT...

Yeah, we'll build a new one for her.

After looking it over, it seems a PO replaced the through bolt that was supposed to be there with that lag screw. Once that pulled out it was over. The current owner is a highway engineer who has...

The K-40, Lady J, came into the yard for a fresher and followup prior to the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival. We dressed her up, redid a couple of leaky seams and launched her.
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Here's a slideshow for those who want to view the entire project to date.

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Charles doing some touch up.
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Well, when it came down to crunch mode, the owner couldn't meet his deadlines for gear being refreshed and returned to the boat in time. We could've made it by working straight through but the...

This is hull number one. I looked at the tang on seasmoke, hull number three and it was bigger, with no lag screw and two through bolts below that upper pin. I guess they made a design change and...

Here are some shots..

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Well, I thought I was gonna be there with two boats. Now it looks as if neither one will be there. Bummer...

Yes it did. I may scavenge what I need from Seasmoke, if the stem isn't too damaged. Otherwise, gonna have to replace the upper stem.

Some mahogany got destroyed when the tang pulled out so i need an emergency source for a chunk of Honduran. Amazed the rig stayed together. Guess I did a good job on the stick since there's no...

Yep, pink bronze shows that the zinc has been leached out by electrolysis. Funny thing about cross grained sets on bungs. I gave a lecture to my bung setters about that not long ago...

Very few of the holes wouldn't take fasteners. We were going from 12's to 14's with the new ones. Those few loose ones took 16's. Less than 300 out of the entire job.

These things just kick ass. I now own six of 'em.... Forty one hundred fasteners later, we have color on the boat.

Here are some shots of Happy Talk, our Kettenburg 50 project on day 15 of the blitzrestore.
We've done 2,100 of the 4,300 fasteners to be done and have started bunging her back up.

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I started with the Rockwells. Made the mistake of buying a gutless Dremel version. Have recently bought two Fiens. I like the Fiens better, less vibration, noise and fatigue. I use the blades from...

Yeah, we'll pull as we go and mark the issue next to the stubborn ones. We'll revisit them IF we have the time.

Now THAT'S an idea I haven't heard of and will try...

I seem to have been appointed the Kettenburg "Guru" for the PNW. I'll take it....

They certainly do ;)

Both the billing and the schedule are the main concerns. While a certain budget is there for this, every single fastener being rotten was NOT anticipated. However, I found some really good Irwin...

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The boys stripped the bottom paint in 12...

So, now that we delivered Anomaly, it's time for a blitzrestore on Happy Talk, the K-50 in our shop. Complete strip of the hull, fasteners from the Garboard turn to the waterline, wood work topside,...

We started using a custom ground Fien blade to clean up and shape the slots first, this morning. The success ratio has risen.

The head shatters, crumbles or just falls apart. All of the zinc is gone from the bronze and what's left is brittle.

They are flaming pink through and through. I'm doing resets on the slots with a chisel because they're usually gone. Some will turn out, some will spin but most just crumble. Every fastener from...

Yep, 50% failure rate so far. Waiting for my unscrewem's. Last chance before I siamese the damned things.

Folks, we have Kettenburg 50, hull number 6 "Happy Talk" in for a restoration. Mainly seams, paint and fasteners, along with some wood work topside. The issue is that a huge number of the fasteners...

As you guys know, we have a Tayana 37 in for a vigorous refit. One of the projects is a new bowsprit. My wooder founda piece of Sitka Spruce 16' X 13" X 6" that had resided in a container for over 10...

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Yesterday was a great day with lots of sun and a good building breeze. I took the ferry over to port Townsend to help sail the Lady J home to Seattle.
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Good luck to 'em. Be a shame to lose her.

What? That's not how it's done? I reckon it's a bit late considering I finished Lady J's mast last Summer....

Unfortunately, many of the shot link are now broken...