Decking!
Posted By Sarah on September 22, 2011
We began cutting the main deck beams yesterday. The steam chest was refurbished and put back together for steaming the remaining ribs. (Heron uses both sawn frames and steamed ribs.) Ekk finished the calculations for deck camber this week, and she’s looking bigger every day.
The steam tank on its own. The tank is partially filled with water and a fire built underneath. Steam is then piped to the steam chest (not shown).
So far, we’re still on schedule for having a fully planked and decked over hull before snowfall. We’ll probably be looking for folks who want to come up and have a caulking party (or two, or three) at some point this fall. We can promise beer, barbeque, and space to pitch tents.
The current plan is to get the hull as finished as possible by snowfall so that we can do interior work and rigging all winter. Heron has several interior bulkheads to be put in, as well as a few bunks and storage lockers. A lot of the rigging can be done in the house by the woodstove. Like Merganser, all of Heron‘s sails will be handsewn from natural fibers. There’s also a variety of small-scale woodwork to be done, from belaying pins to gratings. Fortunately, both Ekk and I are pretty handy, and there are worse ways to spend a winter night than sitting around a woodstove with a hand project!
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