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This is the first of several spars - mast, boom, and yard. I start with a long straight piece of Douglas Fir with a tapered square cross section, and mark lines to turn it into an octogon cross section.
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A hand held power planer was used to take off the corners to form the octogon, Then each of the eight corners is removed to make it 16-sided. Then once more to get 32-sided.
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A lot of sanding is needed to get the edges rounded off and form the long round tapered spar. I used a set of cardboard tubes with finer and finer grits of sandpaper to round it off.
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The completed spars are finished with a two step marine oil called Dejks Olje.
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Prepping to piant the inside of the hull. The lower part has been coated with penetrating epoxy.
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Putting on marine primer - very toxic smelling stuff!
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The view after painting with "sand" colored marine paint from George Kirby Jr Paint - producing marine paint since 1846 in Massachussetts.
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Starting on the mast
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I installed a sheave at the top of the mast to allow hoisting the sail with ease.
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The boat name after painting. Rosina is my great-great-great Grandmother who came from Germany at the age of 16 in teh 1840s. She had 14 children and must have been a very hardy woman. I'm not sure she ever sailed - other than one long voyage across the Atlantic.
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Lacing leathers onto boom where it contacts the mast.
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The hull is almost finished ...
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The pivoting rudder is nearing completion. This took a long time to create - 11 separate pieces of plywood, lots of shaping, many holes to drill, and a precise slot to insert the tiller. Two lines will allow me to raise and lower the blade from within the boat.