Grantala cabin rebuild - photos

[igatenby]

The sides are on, with some trim pieces and windows still to go in and Paul has been painting the ceiling. We only have the last 5' of deck to go on, with the beams to be fitted this week. Then we can fix the short beams in the photo, put on the new roof at the rear, fit the new bulkheads, .........

The cabin sides, incidently, only have a seal coat on them at present. The blue tarps are to keep the sun off the epoxied Dynel until we fit the rear deck and lay the teak.

Late start this morning - off we go at 7.45am

Ian

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[ 06-28-2003, 05:53 PM: Message edited by: igatenby ]

[mmd]

It looks very nice, Ian. I particularly like the aesthetic of the rounded window forms fwd & aft on the main cabin. She'll be a stunner when complete, I'm sure! <insert thumbs-up graemlin here>

[Dave Fleming]

O'h m'gosh real rounded window openings! Nice radius on the center ones and, the fore and aft, to add my praise to MMD's, do look very nice.

Looking forward to completed photos as I am sure ***YOU*** people are looking forward to a completed vessel!

<insert big grin here>

[Ken Hutchins]

Real nice. smile.gif smile.gif

[Tyee1937]

Are the radiused windows your own touch, or is this what the boat originally had? It certainly looks correct on that boat. I'm not familiar with the name of the boat; is she a Monk design? I've noticed that the Monk power boats have raduises like that on the windows, and yours sure does look like it could be a Monk.

Also, very nice overhead; looks just like the overhead in my 1937 vintage stink pot. Is that splined/yacht-lap?

[igatenby]

The window radius treatment is the same as the original, although they are now fixed rather than winding. The amount of water that used to come in around the winding windows was incredible.

The design is a coastal cruiser by AM Deering of Chicago, for the Holmes Bros in Sydney, Australia, where she was built. The design was written up in July 1937 in Rudder magazine.

The overhead treatment is 4" tongue and groove Kauri - which is original in 3/5 of the cabins. I was going to retain this in the rear cabin, but it had been fastened with steel nails, so we are re-doing in the same style.

Today was spent doing overhed sanding of the cabin ceiling.. ughh.

Ian

[Mr. Know It All]

I always look forward to your pictures and progress reports Ian. smile.gif Keep up the good work. That is an absolutely beautiful boat.
Peace------> Kevin in Ohio

[igatenby]

Ahhh! or is that Arghh!

We pulled out the last load of old timber today - the saloon bulkhead and the floor from the shower, toilet and stateroom. Again, I'm intending to lower the floor level to suit my 6' 5"+ height - I hate bending over in the shower (hmmm - don't go there, not my style) We also added sections to the top of the stateroom beams - so that we can restore the correct camber and we also did more ceiling sanding (great fun that).

I'm looking forward to having a clean yard at home - will order another large skip to get rid of the last of the rubbish tomorrow.

Ian

[Lion]

Looks great Ian !

Only one skip to clear the yard ? You forget some of us have actually seen the 'stuff' you have piled (sorry, stored) in your yard !

Lion

[igatenby]

Ahhh - you missed the operative word "another" skip. There have been two large skips since you were here. All recyclables have been or will soon be recycled. My eldest boy got a few hundred dollars out of the scrap copper / brass.

The yard really is progressing - the Type 111 VW is now on the road - the Jensen Interceptor is going... Just have to figure out how to get rid of 3 x 44 gallon drums of old diesel.

Had a wonderful day on the boat today - with a pressure washer and wet/dry vacuum. Brought home 100+ litres of gunge out of the bilge. It is amazing the crud that accumulates in the bilge over 65 years. I'll have to build another sand filter to get rid of all that oily liquid.

Also found another 28 stainless steel bolts through the hull that I'll have to replace with copper bolts. Looks like we may have to replace a plank or two - definitely a couple of ribs due to chemical decay on the forward strut bolts.

Ahhh the joys of restoration.

Ian

[ 07-03-2003, 06:14 AM: Message edited by: igatenby ]