The Endless Restoration - Pictures
By Bob Means - Remlik, Virginia - USA

Bob Means spent the better part of a year restoring this old boat. We have published a couple of previous articles (article1; article2; article3) about this project, but there were quite a few photos left over that we thought should be shown.

March 17:

Chuck, after much work on the transom, we finally got it looking like this. We're pretty happy with the results. The whole boat looks a lot better after the primer went on. All the hard work is over so now we are looking forward to putting all the pieces back together.

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April 5:

Chuck, here is an update as promised. The rub rails make a huge difference in the look of the boat and gives it it's own personality. Had to look around for some good affordable white oak but a friend, John England came through when needed. We sawed these out of a twenty foot two by four that had been under his pile for years. I shaped them in my garage, drilled and counter sunk before we attached to the hull with Stainless 14" bolts through the hull with nuts and fender washers. Now that the hard part is over, sanding, filling, sanding, filling, I'm really beginning to enjoy this project.

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We also attached the companionway runners and hatch cover. I used the same runners that came with the boat. Because there was a double hatchway I had to reshape them plus I added the handrails to the top rather than the side. You can also see some of the below decks work going on. In this space I will be installing my portapottie for the girls.

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May 10 - Trip Work:

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First I ripped a 1x10x 18' piece of mohagany down to the size needed, some inch and a half some one inch, and then shaped the edges.

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Then I epoxied and clamped them to the inside and outside edges.

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Using sheetrock screws with washers I epoxied the cap piece to the side pieces,

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Then I began to sand them all into shape,

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I cut out the nose piece and clamped into place...

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... and began to work out the transom piece by making a pattern

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While all that was setting up I cut inthe eyebrow for the cabin,

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When the nose and transom pieces set up I shped them

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July 30:

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August 20 - New Sails:

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