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Нүүр хуудас / M/V SEAL / progress
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Stateroom 1 and Locker 1
30 зураг
⊹⊱⋛⋋♡ SEAL ♡⋌⋚⊰⊹ Stateroom #1 Bunk #2 Also Starboard Locker #1 : The above planks I still have to make and fasten, which is why the SEAL is still under tarps. As you notice the inside of her all new Hull Planks and Ribs outside. This project I am making and fastening all the missing inside planks to the new ribs. The Stateroom 1 Bunk 1 will eventually get 2 portholes as the original 1926 Blueprints for her shows 24 Total portholes. Unless someone/someplace donates money for them someday, those may not happen. 10" Portholes of any quality start at around $800 each for just galvanized steel, and the SEAL deserves Bronze. As she is the Queen of the Fleet. The fasteners for just this inside plank/inner hull project is $1.75 per fastener and clear fir at 10x that per board foot. The red lines I drew are where the 1.5" thick inner planks will lay. I am using 3.5" #16 Galvanized Fasteners to secure them. Each area I am rebuilding here is super tiny and each piece has to fit up behind everything and be inserted then slid into pockets 25 feet apart behind 4 bulkheads. The Locker #1 area to work is super tiny I have to twist my torso to fit in holding my breath while I work or breathing real shallow to work longer. The Bunk #2 area is more room to work, and from where I have to Slide in each piece many times while fitting it. For a stupid little project its a really big deal, because its super important and I cannot use these areas even for storage. Its really important to me and our life. Its got to be done right or not at all exactly by what the 1926 blueprints say I have made serious efforts to follow them explicitly. I got the wrong size tapered drill bit so I have to improvise, one undocumented feature of living, and working in Alaska is shipping lag. I still have to remove that last small inner plank tomorrow - I was going to leave it because its still structurally sound but almost 100 years old and removing it allows me to put new fasteners into a beautiful bright new piece of clear fir. To leave it would be mediocre half ass thing I would regret. Its more work but the right thing to do. The process is to remove the old plank and fasteners, then drill out the old fastener holes to 3/8" and shoot them all up with reduced epoxy to cure over night, then epoxy mixed with some wood flour mixed in that I dip fluted oak dowels into and tap them in with a mallet to cure overnight, then trim them flush. Also I still have a bunch of excess 5/8" Carriage Bolt ends to cut off, file down then primer and eventually paint. All the new wood I am putting in I am going to leave natural and coat it in reduced epoxy then with epoxy varnish. Someday I would like to get a grant for 24 new portholes. That would be a SUPER FUN Project and finish the SEAL off proper.
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Dock Flower Boats
280 зураг
These are made all from scrap wood from Past Projects restoring the SEAL ♡ No plans for them which made it fun. I wanted a raised proud bow and with a Beautiful wooden boat next to me called the Caribou it made me glad I didnt settle for basic flower box as I had originally planned. The bow stem(s) are sheeted in Oak from the Ribs on the SEAL and the hulls I made from old pieces of patterns and the base from wood we walked on for 2 years. They are built with Stainless Steel Nails and Gorilla Glue 50 bar clamps and my Love for the SEAL, and where I live here in Aurora Harbor ♡ They are designed to fit Exactly on top of the Big Wooden Cleats with the drain holes positioned on both sides of it. I coated the insides with Epoxy Resin and outside. The top trim I am leaving bright and the hull I am painting "pirate green" and the thin piece under the top rail I am painting black (colors of the SEAL) I still have to coat the bottoms tonight then it will be another 24 hours before that cures. So they cant get painted until next week ♡ I am planting Burpee Exclusive: "Evening Scentsation Petunias" in them over flowing with a couple big Burpee Exclusive: "Purple Coral Celosia's" one in each compartment surrounded by the nice blue Scentsations overflowing down to the dock ♡
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Boiler
2 зураг
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ELCI-240v-50a-Main
34 зураг
240volt 50amp ELCI Breaker - tomorrow I install the sub panel to split the 240v 50amp into 2 legs of 120volt 20amp. To run heat and a microwave and my computers & servers AND Power Tools = all on 30amps was too much. This is the foreplay to me installing my 240volt 50amp Isolation Transformer this winter.
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Stern Project
61 зураг
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Port Deck Pine Tar-n-Pitch
18 зураг
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bowstem
191 зураг
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Starboard Project
1939 зураг
This was a story about replacing a Sheer Plank and 4 planks down to the Sponson on the entire Starboard side of the SEAL -> that also involves a House Timber, one rib all new deck beams, new deck, covering boards and more. Mike Svensson is the shipwright who is doing it for me because he has done more planks than I will Ever do in my entire life, hes super talented because of our superior Swedish Genetics~! I can do planks and I Love Shipwright work (see other albums) BUT! Working with Mike gives me confidence with this restoration project because the SEAL is 70 feet and almost 100 Years Old. Mike is really good at big timber projects. After we complete this Starboard Project then we start the Stern which completes the ENTIRE Topside of the SEAL like new. A Dream Come True, all that leaves is a few planks to be a fully restored 100 Year Old "Territorial Fish and WildLife Patrol Vessel" who has worn JUNEAU on her Stern Proudly for almost 100 Years
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sheerplank
120 зураг
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sterndeck
128 зураг
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wheelhouse
201 зураг 3 дэд цомогт байна