Varnish

Finally all new oak ribs fixed in place, all the deck framing secured and the transom replaced. Fixings for buoyancy bags glued in place, thwart and side benches reassembled.

Ready to varnish at last! I decided to use International Original Yacht Varnish - because that is what I have in the garage. The new oak ribs are much lighter in colour than the old ones.

1st coat of very thin varnish has soaked in very well. Amazing how much soaked and very quickly. 60 years since she was last given her base coat at EC Landamore Wroxham. New transom looks very good, a much better job than repairing the original.

A few more coats required over the coming week.....

Bored!

Bored having run out of glue and nails so decided to remove centreboard. This involved carefully hanging Bobtail from the garage ceiling and lowering the board enough to fee it from the pivot.

Very surprised to find such a high aspect "foil" maximum 10" wide, weighing in at only 25lb! Some slight corrosion but in pretty good condition.

Will get some more materials for the weekend and should finish riveting ribs and refixing frames by Monday.