Week 10 before launch - Turning of the hull & delivery of the lead keel

28.09.-04.10.2015

Turning the hull & delivery of the lead keel

This week was the great event I was waiting for weeks now. After having postponed the date a couple of times Tuesday the day had finally come and I was really excited, how she would look like in upright position.

Ross standing under the cradle working on the boom 

      On Monday I finished the cradle where she  would sit on for the next two months to be finished and I removed all the moulds except of two to keep her in position.

Lifting the hull

On Tuesday all members of our course and some of the September Course attendees gathered around the hull and lifted her carefully, while Ant removed the last two moulds from the ladderframe.

Here she goes

Then she was carried out of the workshop and turned slowly. Everything went perfect.

 

Will she fit in?

After turning, the guys carefully placed her onto the cradle. I was a bit worried, that there might be a mistake and she wouldn't fit in, but everything was fine.

Isn´t she pretty?

It was an amazing moment to see her the first time with her beautiful lines. And she looks even bigger, then she did up-side-down.

But a pretty want's to be carressed so me and Ant started immediately to clean her inside (removing the epoxyleavings from glueing the planks).

The next important steps would be to fit the rubrail and to put the floors in.



Pete finished the rubrail last week so we had just to give them the last fitting and fasten them.

I screwed the rubrail onto the hull - where the last plank and sheerplank overlap - by boring holes for the bronzescrews (used to fasten) and the grainplugs to hide them. Bronze is a very soft material so you really have to take care screwing them in. To protect the screwholes from water they have to be sealed. Therefore we added mastics beween the rubrail and the sheerplank.

Well done!

The plugholes we closed with grainplugs and the last finishing was done with some layers of oil.

The leadballastkeel arrived

Another important event was on this week. The leadkeel casted by the IronBrothers arrived.

It weighs 720 pd and should fit into the gap, I left in the keelsection. It's 2130 mm long and squared 125mm x 125 mm. To be more precise I should say:"Now it's 2130 mm long" cause it was delivered 8 mm too long and I had to cut off that.  I calculated a worth of approximately 12 Pounds for the 8mm piece.

To fix the ballastkeel on the backbone I had to drill 5 holes with a diameter of 15 mm with an angle of 7°. Ant "produced" a fidd and told me the direction how to hold the drill.

Drilling the holes for the 15mm bronzekeelbolts