Restoration Log,

Katarina

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9/24/05

After noticing the fashion timbers were not  in the best of shape, I determined that they would need to be looked at more closely and most likely replaced---so I went to town.  After exposing them and sawsalling all the bolts which where deadened or hidden (also killed the saws-all, it actually caught fire in my hands !), I removed the deck knees and stern knees.  Clearly some work had been done in the past here---not bad work at all, but instead all the replacement pieces were larger and of better wood.  The fashion timbers this work was connected to had not faired well however.  Now the next step is how to strengthen the fashion timbers enough to take heavy stern stanchions of black locust.  A new deck beam or two will be needed as well as deck corner knees (black locust).

The deck will be covered with  plywood and then Xynel and epoxy.  I have chosen to go this way because, while the deck is in good shape and I would like to use Coelan, iron staining and various cosmetics would mean a bunch or work that is not in the cards right now.  So opening up  just the stern section of the deck will not be a big deal to tie back together with he old deck.

 

Covering Boards coming off.

Opening up stern deck to see how fashion timbers look-- need work, sometimes you wonder why you look!

9/26/05

The port cabin side has seen better days, so today Richard Fewtrell and I are removing all of it.  With it gone we will be able to make a template to make a new one.  The old wood looked to be either pine or spruce.  The new side will be Yellow Pine.

Stern Deck and Fashion Timbers.  Notice the old deck beam and the asymmetry of the stern construction -- repairs from ages past.

Bit scary cutting so much wood out at once---we will support it with a temp frame.