Heading North to escape the snow.

I have been looking forward to heading back to Rhode Island so I could get back to work on SKORPA.

Putting up firewood, felling saw logs, sawing lumber, erecting a fence all tasks that needed to be done. None of them made easier by the beautiful white stuff. A couple of weeks later than I had hoped we left Virginia and headed for my long silent boat shop.

Everything was just as I had left it. Not a thing had been done.All the work I had done last summer looked pretty solid. Nothing had sprung apart.


First order of business is to glue in the mid transom beam. It was already fitted just needed some creative clamping arrangement to hold it in place.

I need to put pressure on the beam running down the center inside of the transom, way too deep for any clamp I own to reach.

With some scrap lumber and my ordinary C clamps I have an arrangement that can put just the right amount of pressure just where I want it.

Here as the clamps are being removed you can see that the mid transom beam is laminated from two pieces and wraps nicely around the king post or whatever that big board going up the center of the transom is called.

High on the list of things to do is the centerboard and centerboard case.