Whaleboat Traditional and modern boatbuilding

This little tender was crushed between some boats, so I repaired the sheerplanks (new mahogany gunwhales with shipjoints) and gave her a complete facelift: new layers of varnish and three coats of two-component highgloss paint.

The top of this old deck table was too far gone, so I made a new one from pear planks, and coated it with three layers of lineseed oil and four layers of Epifanes boat varnish. I managed to save the original frame, except for some rotten spots which I refitted with new pieces of mahogany.

1. Optimization of the rudder of one of our displacement hulls: TIG welded stainless steel
2. the wing shape of the rudder is clearly visible
3. old vs new: manoeuvrability should increase with 30%

Step 1 - removing the split garboard
Step 2 - sawing and hollowing out the new plank
Step 3 - fitting and final fixing of the new garboard