The oars remain the big hurdle between us and the Waikato: more about them later.
In the last week, I have sorted out the seat fixing, built a seat back for the cox's seat (worth a little blog on its own) and shaped the knees that will further strengthen the seats.
As well as the oars, what remains to be done is:
- Fitting the slots for the foot stretcher
- Varnishing for the final time
- Gluing the seats and knees in place
- Fitting the rudder.
The last on the list, annoyingly, caused a hiccup. OK, a cockup. The rudder was complete and I had finished the yoke, even adding eyelets for the rudder lines:
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| The yoke aren't white |
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| Eyelets in Gaza |
Unfortunately, I then had one of those moments of idiocy which, looking back, some may think have been a feature of my building methods. In most cases, Joe was there to avert disaster with his sage advice:
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| "You don't want to do it like that" |
However, he's away, so therefore entirely to blame for my fitting the brackets on the rudder in the wrong place. I hadn't checked where the pintles needed to go to fit on the transom.The brackets were too far down on the rudder.
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| A badly drawn pintle |
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| Rudder pintle |
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| Two pintos |
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| Guess what? |
The necessary drilling and gouging to fit the brackets meant that the rudder was spoilt. Any repair would have been a botched effort and, although that may be what I specialise in, I decided to make a whole new one.Well, two so far, because my first effort was made up of scraps of ply and was heading to be a mess. I decided to buy some nice, clean ply and start from scratch.
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| Can you guess what it is yet? |
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