July 6th

July 6th

The trailer was painted on Wednesday.

Captain Chesapeake took it to the Amish weld shop on Thursday to get the necessary modifications made.

Trailer is Painted and ready to go!

Another view

Close up of the elevated rails

July 5th

5 July

Tony determines the required angle

Making the cut, that was easy ... not

Last Day In June

Jim Grinds off the bolts

David Paints the Console

1st Coat is coat is complete

Tony mounts the stainless steel transom plate

while Jim looks on

Painted stripe at the water line

The last 2 nights resulted in a quality, finished look to the mighty Darlington Skiff. Tony (Captain C) and Jim Proudly pose as the fresh paint dries in the unusually cool summer air. We painted the inside and outside in one night. 

Here are a few other views of the SKIFF in various stages of being painted. Tim and Tony are working in the boat.

On Tuesday, Dave and Jim sanded the entire boat while Tony and Tim cut the board for the transom. The sanding looks pretty good now but we needed to use a light to find the majority of the imperfections. We're thinking the surface will be pretty smooth once finished. Tonight it the end of three weeks of sanding!!!

Tim and Tony took a longggggg time to cut a single board for the transom. We had no idea what they were really doing but it must have been instense.

6-1-16 The great transom cut and drain plug install

Wednesday June 1st we gathered again in Tim's fine barn/workshop.

There was much accomplished on this fine evening. We installed the second rub rail on the port side

of the boat. We had to wait 2 weeks to install because we needed all the pipe clamps and had to leave them on the previously curing starboard side.  

 

 

 Tim and Dave were working diligently all evening. Dave using the palm sander to smooth out all the topside trim and Tim with the belt sander .  

 While Tim and Dave were stirring up dust.... I went around the boat to fill any missed or under covered screw heads with wood putty.

 Tim with great style and perfection cut out the transom with a jig saw. It turned out perfectly. We had to remove a few stainless screws to prevent damage to his saw.




 This picture to my right was very simple yetmade all of us very nervous.
Basically that bright circle at the bottom of the transom is the newly installed drain plug.
It feels a little weird to take a 1 inch paddle bit and put a hole intentionlly in the beautiful transom we have been working on all these weeks. It was basically a peice of cake after measuring and double checking the measurements before drilling.  Done....just like that.

Nice view of the boat with the transom cut out.  We are getting close... I would say about 80% complete.

Measuring for transom cut

I am posting this oldtime photo on how to measure for transom cut.