I'm building a boat to a design by Paul Fisher of Selway Fisher Design in the UK. The design is called "Able" and her vital statistics are: overall length 4.88m (16ft), beam 2m (6ft 6in) and design weight is 360kg (790lbs). You can read more about this design at http://www.selway-fisher.com/OtherDB.htm#KANE.

I intend to procede more slowly with this boat than I did with either of my other boat building projects (see links below on the right). This is, after all, a hobby and there are other things to do. So, updates to this blog might happen once every week or two. Come back and see.

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Monday, 10 June 2013

Main Mast Finished

I have finished shaping the main mast and glued the "ears" that support the standing rigging in place. I guess the next step is to apply some finish to the mast but I will probably leave that until the rest of the spars are done. Here is a photo of the mast in the boat.

 
Yes. that's right, the mast is in two pieces with a hinge so that it can fold down into this position for transport. There is an earlier post about the folding mast with reasons for doing it and photos of the hinge,
 
The next photo shows that the end of the mast sticks out beyond the transom by about 400 mm, I will make a more substantial support for the mast (plus the boom, gaff, sail and rigging) to use when transporting the boat on its trailer.
 

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