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It's been a while since I've touched Oh Joy because of the paying boat. However, ya can't sand outside in the rain so we worked on the old girl Friday and today. We set in the sister to that bad rib aft and I put the fasteners to it today.



I still have to clean it up.



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I got in some of that big Locust today. A single board weighs right at 100 Lbs. Ya oughta try wrestling with this stuff when try to cut it.



I decided to make one of the transom knees. Here's where I'm doing the cutout.



Then it was time for the bandsaw using angles from ...

Got into the shop to finish up the cockpit shelf for the Starboard side. When setting and drilling holes for fasteners inboard yesterday, we noticed it splitting. I found a suitable piece of scrap Locust just barely big enough to fashion the piece from. It's a compound curve, both along the curve of the cockpit and fore and aft.



It also has notches outboard for the deck beams and ...

Another rainy day in the shop. I received some fasteners from Jamestown Dist. and started working on actually bolting down some deck beams. We had soaked the clamp with Ethylene Glycol a few weeks ago and followed up by plugging the bottoms of the bolt holes today and filling them with CPES. I also sanded the old paint off and brushed a coat on for good measure. We then coated the deck beam end with it as well.

Once the wood was treated I laid out marking lines for reference to ...

Took a drive up to Oh Joy before the game since I haven't been since last weekend. I scraped some paint aft and applied more stripper. While I was there, I made up another foredeck beam. Then I started checking them for curvature and uniform height across the entire foredeck. I used a very square floor board to measure.



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