Mystery Answered

The new boat is not a Swift but is a Penn Yan Aristocrat, 1946 vintage originally finished bright above the spray rail and on the decks.  The hardware is chrome plated bronze.  Below the spray rail is to be finished ivory.

Mystery Answered

New Addition to The Fleet

A 1958 (appox.) Penn0Yan Joins the Wonderdog Fleet

Rub rails installed on Nina

For Nina Builders

Here is another option for the windshield version of Nina, picture is from Soundings Magazine article on the most recent WB show in Mystic CT

Hull Tweaked

I just had to tweak the hull to bring the diagonal strings together.  The solution was simple, pull the point of the bow over to the port side and the strings just touch.  Simple enough but not sure how to keep it there til all the structure is in place.

Frames Mostly removed, Hull Stands Alone

No that the frames are out of the way it is a little easier to see the hull itself.  I used my 6" surform and a bench plane to clean up the edges of the sheer where bits of glass and epoxy seemed to want to gather.  After these pictures were taken I stretched two lines across the hull from up near the bow (frame B) back to the transom, crossing somewhere in the middle and missing touching each other by less than one eighth inch.  Close enough but maybe I'll try to tweak it a bit.