50th BIRTHDAY REBUILD OF A YACHTING WORLD DIAMOND
The "Slippery Beaver" - Auckland, New Zealand
Stripping 50 years of paint
The start of the mammoth task of paint stripping
Yacht and keel leaving Half Moon Bay
Almost paint free
On the crane
Moving the boat to the shed
Boat and keel soon after arrival
Skillsaw to the deck!
Skillsaw to the deck!
Hacking away at the old
Building side walls for new cockpit
Flipping boat
Inverted
Sealer soaked
Stripped and upside down
Flipping
Original keel (drawing half the depth of new keel)
Removing lead from original keel. The 550kg being used very inefficiently
Sabre-sawing old lead for melting down
Original floors and king plank
Old floors come out for keelson crack repair
Original floors and king plank
Interior paint stripping
Sealing for new floors
Custom wood prep for new floors
First stage of building new floors
Sealing the new floors (75mm cedar up from 45mm)
Dry fitting new floors
New floors to accommodate new keel. Alaskan yellow cedar
Keelson build up for rebated keel landing