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[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Boatbuilders of Scotland, form an orderly queue…...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

[QUOTE=long time lurker;n8948385]It seems to me that floor timbers of whatever sort, bent, sawn or laminated, would net the desired effect far better,...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

“Coffin board elm” aka English Elm is not the same stuff.

The ribs are Canadian Rock Elm (“CRE”) which was generally used for steamed...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Certainly the planks will have been spiled and then ripped. Given that this was series production of a dozen or more dinghies each year and that I think...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

These boats were built on a form.

If you have a copy of Uffa Fox’s “Sailing, Seamanship and Yacht Construction”, the first of his five “annuals”...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Do I spy a Fife dragon at the forward end of the cove line?

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

I’d say that’s probably OK, because there are hard points (the keel and hog, with the centreboard case and the mast step, on one side, and the (1945...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Thank you Brian. I’ve found a supplier and will get some....

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Neat! Thanks. I’ll experiment....

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Talking of International Ten Square Metre Canoes, here’s ‘Ogaf the Unbearable”, K229 but wearing the wrong sail number, being sailed by...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Good point. But less stiff for the weight....

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

For anyone thinking of taking on one of these little jewels of wooden boatbuilding:

An Albacore rig, rudder and centreboard will fit. Indeed...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Floorboards (the battens) are out and the bottom is scraped. It may get another scrape. I’ve got a lot of 2” wide carbon fibre tape. The Plan is to...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

A close up of the area I’m worrying about; this was taken on the day that we got her back to Suffolk from Eyemouth

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[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

I love the kapok cushions and the anchor! She was owned for most of her life by Bob Tough, as in Toughs of Teddington, boatbuilder to the Queen, Trinity...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

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[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Thank you, George. You have divined my intent - to try to make tiny U channels. The centreline structure with the keel, hog and centreboard case is massively...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

The outside:

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[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

“Textbook” English boatbuilding. The inner planking is 1/16”...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Yes, that’s the idea. Considering that the only glue in the boat is the failing urea formaldehyde in the mast (to be split and re-glued) and some epoxy...