Whiskey Plank!

[redbopeep]

Yea! Last week the shutter planks were (finally) put in place port and starboard and the final plank went on the transom yesterday afternoon. We're having a little, um, celebratin' today

The 8,000 or so bungs...they're coming along, too.

Hubby and #1 helper keep asking me when I'm gonna hire a crew to do all the torture board work. I keep telling them that they're it.

Yes, I'm a little giddy. I'm so happy. happy dance. happy dance.

[Concordia...41]

Wooo hoooo! Congratulations!

[Flying Orca]

Congrats! And if you find a torture-board crew, feel free to send 'em my way...

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

Where are the pics!!!!????

Congrats...

[redbopeep]

I wasn't the official picture taker at the little party. I'll get digital copies tomorrow and post!

Ah, don't know which was better...the finished planking, maybe the Segram's VO, double chocolate cake, a few spicy chicken wings...dunno, but today was a yummy day.

[StevenBauer]

Great news. Can't wait to see the pics.


Steven

[S B]

Yummy day indeed! many to follow. congrats.

[redbopeep]

OK, here's some pics of the planking and the little whiskey plank party. The actual whiskey plank was the middle plank on the transom...

the cake


the whiskey drinkers


The final plank (middle one on transom)


In the above pic, the starboard shutter plank is the one without bungs (8th one away from the counter timber)..In the below pic, the aft end of the shutter plank on the port side is shown...yes, thats a good bit of linseed oil that "helped" it into place. Also, used those extra boat stands to "help" it into place.



some other plank pics

[bob easton]

Congratulations! Beautiful work!

[FSS172]

Way to go and congratulations!! Inspiring!

[S/V Laura Ellen]

Beautiful work!
Congratulations!

[Duncan Gibbs]

It's awful!! Throw it away and start again!!

Major congrat's! Outstanding work! Can't wait for the next instalment...

[StevenBauer]

Great pics! Thanks. I can see why you are so excited. Any more pics?


Steven

[Jim Ledger]

That's a beautiful piece of work. Congratulations!

[redbopeep]

Great pics! Thanks. I can see why you are so excited. Any more pics?


Steven

Thanks for all your compliments, folks. We're pretty happy with the progress so far.

Margo's sending me her favorite caulking mallet to help out with my "next" project of caulking all those seams. We still have about 1/5th of the bungs to go on the port side. The first faring was being done on the starboard side wed-fri. The rest of the bungs should be done mon-tues.

more pics...you can go to our blog and check out progress there, too.

Lots of pics haven't been uploaded, somehow too busy working on the boat...

John at the stem on Wednesday




Some of the earlier pics---

spiling and hanging the first few planks:



the starboard garboard plank

[AussieBarney]

What abeautiful shape Did you replank the entire hull and how long did it take I'm only a new member on the forum and it blows me away when I see the size of the projects thqat are attempted and carried through to such a magnificent conclusion. Barney.

[redbopeep]

What abeautiful shape Did you replank the entire hull and how long did it take I'm only a new member on the forum and it blows me away when I see the size of the projects thqat are attempted and carried through to such a magnificent conclusion. Barney.

Yes, we did replank the entire hull. We started out intending to replank what absolutely needed it now--that was everything above the waterline and about 1/3 of the planking below the waterline.
The criteria for keeping a plank was that it would be likely to last another 10 years.

Then, when we were knee deep in the project, AFTER re-fastening (2000 new bronze screws) the old "keeper" planks, and after scarfing several old planks to new planking material and dealing with old-to-new transitions...the shipwright overseeing the project said, quite casually, "that should last a couple years, but you'll have to replace these remaining planks within 5 years..."

Well, we felt pretty dumb since we'd been eyeing those planks thinking they looked pretty bad, almost as bad as the ones that had been removed from the boat as rotten. We'd been clinging to the hope that we (inexperienced owners) just didn't recognize a good plank when we saw it . I guess the shipwright had forgotten our decade criteria or had gotten worried about the keeper planks holding up to bluewater use for 10 years. In any case, "within 5 years" does not a decade make! so we ended up replanking the whole boat so we wouldn't have to return to planking in just a couple years.

The planking didn't take all that long considering the size of the vessel. 2 guys did 3/4 of it in about 4 months last spring/summer (1400 hrs with one fellow who'd done planking before, one fellow (my husband) who was doing this for the first time). The remaining was completed off and on during this winter and spring (between re-decking the boat) by mostly one fellow (300 hrs) with another guy doing butt blocks and portholes/port blocking (130 hrs on all the blocking and portholes so far) and a third person just doing bungs (72 hrs so far). The initial fairing shows us that we can expect to spend about 100 hours on that before caulking and final fairing.

We figure we also wasted 120-160 hrs of plugging/ repairing/ refastening old planking and 40 hrs of plugging holes in the frames (after removing the newly refastened old planking) as well as almost 2000 #18 bronze screws that we mostly did NOT re-use on the new planking because we found ourselves damaging them (twisting the threads out or breaking off) when removing them.

All in all, we've very happy with the results and feel like the re-planking has been among the easier and more straightforward projects on the boat. Much more stressing about the deck, frames, floors, keel bolts, mast steps, counter timber, stem...

[katiedobe]

Great work. thanks for listing the scope of work. Very informative.