Making up knee and breasthook patterns

Making  stern quarter knee patterns, now got to make the real thing and fit them

The breast hook, this will prove interesting when it comes to fitting it, long screws through the planks and gunwales.  

Making the thwarts and seats for Mai-Star Class dinghy

Cutting and thicknessing the thwarts and seats top mast support 

Putting them in position on the dinghy to see how them measure up and look before gluing them up 

The first three pieces glued up 

Now once them have cured and set, then glue the other three and then make up the edging pieces which on this dinghy are going to be made out of either oak or ash.  

The Mai Star Class dinghy gunwale infills and making the blanks up to make the thwarts

Fitting the gunwale infills for the mast support and the front seat and also done the rowlock base infills further down the gunwales as well

Making up the hardwood blanks for the forward seat and mast support 

The gunwale infills finished off  and the long baton setting off the measurements for thew seats and thwarts.

Now the snow as gone its time to get back to work

Now the snow as gone and the yard is clean its time to make the best of weather.

now that the Mai-Star Class dinghy is back in the workshop it is time to get the fitting out underway and get the dinghy finished off

The same with the Enterprise as this needs to get finished off and be taken back to its owner so he can sail it in the spring

The Hardy just needs a few jobs doing and that will be on its way as wel.

The Shetland is finished off and awaiting its new owner

Spoilting off the new planks for the classic yacht we are repairing  and once finished off it too will be back in the water ready for the new season.

Snow stops play for a few days?

This is the scene I wake up to this morning and the roads are not much better. The drive to work is not good either.

So it is going to be a day working in the home office and sort out some admin 

So as soon as this cold weather goes, it will be all hands to the planes and sandpaper to get the work done down at the yard and workshop and get the boats ready for Easter