Peerie Maa, 40 years on.

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  • Peerie Maa
    Old Grey Inquisitive One
    • Oct 2008
    • 62419

    Peerie Maa, 40 years on.

    It is 40 years since I took Peerie Maa on. She was in a pretty ropey state, many of the planks were split and had been repaiers in the Shetlands by their traditional method of clenching a doubler over the split. She was amateur built with too much wood taken off when hemming home the laps, so there were some cracked lands, and huge tapering gaps. Here shear strakes and inwires were rotten as were her frames and she had rusted out galvo nails fastening her mid line.
    Unfortunately there were so many split planks that to repair her properly would have required a total rebuild on the old backbone, so I spliced in new wood to repair the worst of the crippled lands, replaced the iron ith copper bolts and renewed shear strakes and frames.

    So now it is time to overhaul her again. It has been such a dry summer that some of the splits have widened, and the old boatinatube has lost its elasticity and grip on the wood.

    After cleaning out the splits and gaps and preparing splines.
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    A badly split land. This had been repaired previously with a glued in spline. I will replace the missing piece of spline, refasten clear of the crack, and reinforce by edge nailing into the plank.
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    And an indication of how much she has dried out, a gap between the forefoot and keel. As she is dry sailed, this will be filled with something soft and squidgy, as it is unlikely to take upo any time soon.
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    It really is quite difficult to build an ugly wooden boat.

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  • Peerie Maa
    Old Grey Inquisitive One
    • Oct 2008
    • 62419

    #2
    Re: Peerie Maa, 40 years on.

    Splits to be splined from inboard.

    Split garboard
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    Splits running out from under old patches
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    Nails driven out from split land to be refastened after the glue has set.
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    It really is quite difficult to build an ugly wooden boat.

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    • Peerie Maa
      Old Grey Inquisitive One
      • Oct 2008
      • 62419

      #3
      Re: Peerie Maa, 40 years on.

      More to come when the glue is hard, and I have cleaned off and sanded ready for primer.
      It really is quite difficult to build an ugly wooden boat.

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      • cstevens
        Dreaming of a boat
        • Nov 2014
        • 6357

        #4
        Re: Peerie Maa, 40 years on.

        Nice to see some details on Peerie Maa Nick. Any photos of her on the water? (I imagine that you have probably posted some in the past but I have not seen any).
        - Chris

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        • heimlaga
          Senior Member
          • Dec 2007
          • 1072

          #5
          Re: Peerie Maa, 40 years on.

          A very beautiful boat......but honestly she looks like it would be time for a few new planks. 40 years is pretty much the expected lifespan of a boat lie her so no wonder she needs some repairs.

          Take good care of that wonderful boat!
          Amateur living on the western coast of Finland

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          • Peerie Maa
            Old Grey Inquisitive One
            • Oct 2008
            • 62419

            #6
            Re: Peerie Maa, 40 years on.

            Originally posted by cstevens
            Nice to see some details on Peerie Maa Nick. Any photos of her on the water? (I imagine that you have probably posted some in the past but I have not seen any).
            None of her sailing, just one or two along side or at anchor.
            It really is quite difficult to build an ugly wooden boat.

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            • Hwyl
              Gareth
              • Jan 2003
              • 22222

              #7
              Re: Peerie Maa, 40 years on.

              Originally posted by cstevens
              Nice to see some details on Peerie Maa Nick. Any photos of her on the water? (I imagine that you have probably posted some in the past but I have not seen any).
              That's exactly what I was going to say. I know it's enormously difficult to get pictures of your own boat sailing, but you must have some.

              Edited ^^^^^^^^^^ I'm really surprised. 40 years and no pictures.

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              • wizbang 13
                Senior Member
                • Oct 2009
                • 24793

                #8
                Re: Peerie Maa, 40 years on.

                That's a notch above my skill set Nick. I do not understand clinker at all.
                But I do get keeping a vessel forever and hanging onto her.
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                • Peerie Maa
                  Old Grey Inquisitive One
                  • Oct 2008
                  • 62419

                  #9
                  Re: Peerie Maa, 40 years on.

                  Originally posted by heimlaga
                  A very beautiful boat......but honestly she looks like it would be time for a few new planks. 40 years is pretty much the expected lifespan of a boat lie her so no wonder she needs some repairs.

                  Take good care of that wonderful boat!
                  Yes, she was more than 20 years old when I took her on, her sails pre-dated 1956. I suspect that she had been used as a rowing whilly before being rigged for sail, possibly pushing her back to before the outbreak of WWII. As I said, start taking planks out, and there will be no Peerie Maa left.
                  It really is quite difficult to build an ugly wooden boat.

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                  • SKIP KILPATRICK
                    Senior Member
                    • Jan 2013
                    • 13573

                    #10
                    Re: Peerie Maa, 40 years on.

                    I can't wait to see and hear more! Good on you Nick!
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                    • Peerie Maa
                      Old Grey Inquisitive One
                      • Oct 2008
                      • 62419

                      #11
                      Re: Peerie Maa, 40 years on.

                      Originally posted by wizbang 13
                      That's a notch above my skill set Nick. I do not understand clinker at all.
                      But I do get keeping a vessel forever and hanging onto her.
                      b
                      Nah, if you can hang a garboard plank, clinker is easy. You just need lots of long reach boat gripes, but they are asy to make on a band saw.
                      It really is quite difficult to build an ugly wooden boat.

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                      • Dody
                        Tonga!
                        • Jun 2017
                        • 979

                        #12
                        Re: Peerie Maa, 40 years on.

                        Originally posted by wizbang 13
                        That's a notch above my skill set Nick. I do not understand clinker at all.
                        But I do get keeping a vessel forever and hanging onto her.
                        b
                        + 1 from me and subscribed !
                        Last edited by Dody; 07-15-2019, 04:17 PM.
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                        • Phil Y
                          Banned
                          • Apr 2010
                          • 21066

                          #13
                          Looks a bit like a little boat for sale here locally, which I went and laid eyes on the other day for a fellow forumite.

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                          • Peerie Maa
                            Old Grey Inquisitive One
                            • Oct 2008
                            • 62419

                            #14
                            Re: Peerie Maa, 40 years on.

                            Originally posted by Hwyl
                            That's exactly what I was going to say. I know it's enormously difficult to get pictures of your own boat sailing, but you must have some.

                            Edited ^^^^^^^^^^ I'm really surprised. 40 years and no pictures.
                            OK some thread drift,
                            At a Brest IFOS
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                            As a stand pushing the Old Gaffers Association,
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                            And at anchor at an OGA meeting.
                            Peerie maa at Ullswater.jpg

                            And that is all that I have.
                            It really is quite difficult to build an ugly wooden boat.

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                            • cstevens
                              Dreaming of a boat
                              • Nov 2014
                              • 6357

                              #15
                              Re: Peerie Maa, 40 years on.

                              By "old gaffers" you mean the boats, yes?

                              Thanks for humoring us with a little thread drift. Peerie Maa is a great looking boat!
                              - Chris

                              Any single boat project will always expand to encompass the set of all possible boat projects.

                              Life is short. Go boating now!

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