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I will have to have a look at this tonight, as through the winter we quite commonly have my slow cooker stew on a sunday (monday and tuesday too if there is enough left.)

how about 'Tender behind' as the name

Tonight its looking at the stem, the prow / bit at the front, I have two choices, to do it in oak (as per Broad Ambition and model #1) or to do it in teak. I still dont know, I will start out using the oak, and see how it goes. to do this I need to shape the oak, its not quite wide enough, but really its only a tiny sliver needed at the very top corners, so shaping is done, and the pieces cut off are stuck back in place. this will give me the width I need. So this will be shaped, then I will have a look at the grain presented, if it passes muster it will be fitted and final shaping done.

I like it when we keep things 'in house'

welcome to the forum, I have all the trials and tribulations of wooden boatbuilding - in miniature (see my Broad Ambition the model thread in restorations). Charlie (Griff) has all of those trials in full size with the real Broad Ambition

is she calling it channel No 5 (chanel)

classic example of the 'bejasus' digger, only one track can walk on water.

its there over on facebook Siddy, I presume awaiting upload to youtube for here.

I can recommend the technique, mind you to do the transom of Broad Ambition might take a week or more.

well I guess I cant get it much better than that, not without varnish.

working on it now with a lapping paper - we used this back when we had electrostatic printers for cleaning the glass bar with copper wires embedded that did the printing, i reckon the next step in sanding after this is skin.

we used to do that for wooden food bowls when we did viking re-enactment.

So this morning after a fruitful boot fair visit, and doing all of the remaining weekend chores, it was back to the transom, off came the clamps, and then to work, 60 grit on the electric sander, followed by 100 grid on a sanding block, I then worked through 120 grit, 150 grit, a long time on 400, as I dont have anything between, then 600, 800 and 1500 grit, finishing off with a 3000 grit finishing cloth, well I dont know about you, but when its already reflecting the flash, and its not even varnished yet, I call that a result. the wood was chosen to have some nice grain detail.

the fourth plank is on, tomorrow we will be ready to start sanding

I used the motor itself as a lathe and a file to put the pulley groove onto the belt drive pulley.

another workshop project, convert my lathe to 24V, the current 90W motor is intermittent rated - that means 20 minutes cooling for every 10 minutes use. a while back I found the remains of an electric scooter with a 200w motor. the big problem, its a 24v motor, now I could run it off 2 car batteries, or I could buy a 24v power supply - this was purchased, a 15A (360W) power supply for just £18. Add the three parts together, and my lathe is now powered by a 200W continuous rated motor at 24v

I would imagine the things were stuck down to prevent them slipping and sliding around when in high seas

This is my Aunt back in those days, she is still a bit of a daredevil.

I have to make a new aluminium jaw protector as I seem to have lost one, but its looking good - now where to put it - I need more workbench.

this morning after shopping the vice jaw plate was trimmed down, the whole thing given a coat of wax polish (to preserve the patina) and reassembled.

yes but since you are allowed the red stuff in your tank on a boat, that would not be necessary, my thought that buying direct - straight from the tanker, you might get a better rate, actually big ships must fuel up somewhere, and I bet if you are buying by the thousand litres, there must be some cost savings to be made, though I am certain Robin will already have researched the fuel costs.

the third plank went on this morning, after each plank I have to clean up the squeeze glue as it expands on curing, before prepping the next plank.

I'm not going to need a vast amount Charlie, if you have some left over in a tin, it will probably be enough.

second transom plank this evening.

maybe London Rascal will need it on his new boat