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Recent restoration ... Century Resorter

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HV 16 featured in WoodenBoat magazine’s
'Small Boats 2009'

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New Build Completed: Atkin tender "Vintage"
After finish shaping and sealing quarter knees, breasthook and rubrails, I handed Vintage over to the pround new owner, Dave Clemmer, for final varnish and painting. 

Vintage has been a challenging little project, including a relatively complicated backbone, very noticeable tumblehome moving aft and full sections forward, and lot of volume to cover with the prescribed 9 strakes (nine planks each side). 

Here is the main thwart and daggarboard case.  The purpose of the knees is not so much to hold the seat up, as it is to stiffen the top, or 'sheer' of the boat. The knees are notched to recieve the inner gaurd rail, so this whole business is assembled, prefinished and installed in the boat before the inner and outer rails are rivited in place.  In the top corner of the picture you can just see the forward seat, or thwart in boatbuilding nomenclature.  As the mast passes through here, this thwart is reinforced with a mast partner or doubler, and the doubler is carefully morticed into the adjacent stringer, called the seat riser.



In the two pictures above, you first see me boring keel bolts after setting up the molds and much of the backbone.  The second picture illustrates establishing the plank lines with temporary battens, these lines will later be picked off the molds when patterning the Red Cedar planking stock.

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