Making Progress.

All the ribs are now finished in the Midships area along with new Floors and Keel Bolts.
 

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Moving to the forward arear next.

Fastening ribs.

Keep forgetting to take photos and when I do remember I forget to update!

     More ribs fitted

And the hull burnt off and repainted were the ribs have been fastened.

Onward

Starting to fit the new ribs.

Getting out the stock and finishing other jobs.

Some time ago I bought three Butts of Oak which I had sawn through and through and then air dried them to use for boat building.

 

With the saw working I got out more stock for the laminates.

 After gluing up I thicknessed them and then put a round over on them with a router.

 In the mean time I did some more work on a new dinghy fitting knees and gunwales.

Fixing the electric motor.

Have been ripping up oak to laminate the frames and that was going well till the table saw stalled and then refused to start! Was afraid I might have burnt it out as I was working it quite hard.
Took off the two ends to inspect the windings. 

They looked fine and read ok on the metre.

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Had already tested the capacitor and although the reading was not quite what I had expected it was good enough for it to start so the only thing I could think was that the centrifugal switch was at fault. 

The metre gave an intermittent reading so I cleaned the points but the reading did not improve until I bent the actuating arms to allow the springs to close the points firmly.

With the motor back together it started up cleanly and without hesitation!

 Back in business!

Laminating new Frames.

Before I removed the old  broken steamed frames I used a spilling board to pick up the outboard shape of each one.

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Then transferred the spilling to a lofting board.

Using a batten and spline weights to fair in the shape.

Blocks cut to fit the line and eventually held down with screws put through the board.

 

 

Laminates glued with epoxy and clamped to the blocks.

Two ribs Port and Starboard can be made from the same spilling.

A new frame cut to length, fitted and primed with paint on the faying surfaces now ready for fastening into place

Stripping out the interior.

Internally with the Saloon furniture and berths disassembled and removed I can measure up for the new frames before removing the old frames.

With the old frames out I can clean up and inspect the planking.

Getting at the frames.

Removing the paint in way of the frame fastenings.

With the Rubbing Strakes and Toe-rails removed I can remove the deck in way of the frame heads.

Lady of Rue.

Lady is a 1964 British Folkboat built in East Germany.
If anyone knows her or has knowledge of the East German boats I would be glad to here from you.

After 55 years of hard service she is still fair and the planking is in good order.
She has quite a few broken ribs and this is the first job to tackle.