Month: March 2018

This is likely to be my final big project at IBTCP, and I am really honoured to be doing it, the dartmouth gig that we have all been building is complete and I am to finish the vessel and launch her. Hopefully the original vessel that she is based on will be relaunched at the same time.

I started by sanding the entire interior, and exterior to the rubbing strake, this will be finished bright.

I also got the detail work that I had in mind done, carving simple lines and a star to ad definition. I have tried to keep it simple and unfussy.

Over the next few weeks I will be doing a lot of varnish and paintwork!

I priced for and undertook a small job for Z53, a victory class yacht built in 1949. She had several broken timbers which we scarfed new steamed sections into, and I’m proud of the result. A total of seven timbers, and pictured are the three up forward around the stem/forefoot joint.