Boat Construction

boat construction


Steven and I Stripping Bill Dunns' Wrecked Sailboat.	Loading the garage with her rig and fittings.	Construction frames and ribbands. Note Keelson White Oak, it's stiff as steel.	Steaming turns oak to rubber. Keelson bent and clamped into place on the mold.


Jody with keelson as keelson dries out.	Shaping the keelson with a plane.	Fitting keel frames.	Keel being assembled in Lommels' basement.


Keel assembly.	Keel fitted to keelson.	Boil-out tank for frames (ribs).	Steaming and bending frames.


Glueing and screwing frames to keelson.			Sheer-strake. The first plank for any wooden boat built.


Every day I fitted the next strake (plank).


	Almost done. The keel is in site.	Sanding down Dreams' hull.	Pulling Dreams' hull off the mold with Walter.


Pulling Dreams' hull off the mold with Walter.		Sheer stringer clamped in place.	Floorboards going in.


Deck frames going in.	Half-inch Fir Ply going down for the deck.


Deck and the cabin doghouse in place.	Dream is done. One very happy shipwright.	It's a pure beauty.	Fitting mast and rigging outside the garage.


Rigging Dream before launch. Steven is supervising.	Going down the aunching ramps.	Stuck in the mud at the end of the ramp.	The man who met John Riding, is helping Steven push Dream sideways off cradle.