In this episode, we start to get the “hang” of the planking! The first quick job is to put the Stopwaters into the centreline seams - softwood dowels which will swell up and prevent water ingress. Then the first Angelique Garboard is hung, and is quickly followed by more Topside Planks and Broads.

Meanwhile, I jury-rig a circular saw to cut rolling bevels, which helps speed up cutting the planks out. The other guys get into the swing of riveting, with the help of a homemade “Dolly” (otherwise known as a “Bucking Iron”).

We are still speeding up, but by the end of the first 2 weeks of planking we have 12 planks on the boat, which I’m pretty happy with!

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Music:

  • Black Terrier Blues - Mini Vandals
  • This Or That - TrackTribe
  • Salgre - Jimmy Fontanez / Media Right Productions
  • Pale Rider Blues - Mini Vandals
  • Boxcar Rag - Audionautix
  • Cover Charge - TrackTribe
  • Sailors Lament - Audionautix

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