Some other photos

(first published April 2005)

Here's some I took earlier - I've got to catch up a bit as this blog is almost a week behind the action.


This is the hull after removal of the deck. You can see that the mould must have been taken off an old dinghy. I've forgotten to mention that Lugg is ten feet long and four wide, with a pivoting centreplate and transom hung rudder.


And here's the deck moulding that I'm discarding. The more you see the boat without it the more you realise quite how ugly the deck was.


This shows the damage to Lugg's nose and the method of construction with the steel band around the top of the hull moulding.


And this shows how the steel band is fastened to the hull moulding with stainless screws and nuts. To avoid removing them and removing much of the rigidity from the hull moulding I epoxied strips of softwood 10 x 25 x 150mm between them on both the inside and the outside of the hull, to which I have subsequently glued a continuous strip of softwood 10 x 25 x 3,200mm. Diagram and picture to follow, but now the sun's shining and I've got to get on with it.