Building a 34' junk schooner: Deck Down

Tuesday, 21 December 2010

Deck Down

I decided that it would be great to get the deck on before christmas so that we could have a 'christmas party' in the boat. Laminating all the deck beams took some time - the knees have 9 laminates each and main beams have 6. All epoxy glued together.

My brother Nick and I had a fun week of jointing and fitting all the deck beams and then finally nailed down the first of two layers of the ply deck just in time for a celebratory drinks party. A good stage to have got to just before christmas. - 12 months ago we had a christmas party in an empty shed celebrating erecting a 'temporary shed roof' !! amazingly the roof is still there after so many gales.... touch wood

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The Plan

To build J Benford’s 34’ sailing Dory ‘Badger’ for myself and Charlotte to sail the high seas on.

Our current boat Maureen was built in 1926 and has (still is) served us well over the past 8 years. She is beautiful and a joy to sail but due to her age and size she dose not have the ability to take us everywhere we would like to go. So, it was decided, to build a new boat with the reason that we would get a much better boat for the for the money compared to buying a secondhand one. I am building on my own in a s derelict shed next to my existing workshop so overhead costs are low.

The ‘Badger’ has long been a boat of interest to us (thanks Annie Hill!). When looking at the construction plans in detail with a view to build I became convinced. It looked like it should be fast and economical to construct and so far has proved to be so. I plan to do everything myself from casting the keel to sewing the sails.........

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