Friday 29 July 2022
News from Cygnet Wooden Boats July 29, 2022 at 06:47PM
Mast building can be a very very long process! 🙃
Wednesday 27 July 2022
OBIE MORRIS supervising the Game of Inches! 🤩
OBIE MORRIS supervising the Game of Inches! 🤩
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News from Cygnet Wooden Boats July 27, 2022 at 08:38AM
OBIE MORRIS supervising the Game of Inches! 🤩
Sunday 17 July 2022
News from Cygnet Wooden Boats July 17, 2022 at 12:01PM
THE NEW ZEALAND BUILT WOOLLACOTT EMMA. After 70+ years of service this beautifully built liitle yacht is well deserving of a whole lot of love and care! After three months in the shed EMMA has emerged looking very smart indeed! Great work from team EMMA, Iefke, Matt, Marshall, Taylor, Marleise and her proud owner Gwyn! Big thanks to Iefke for the wonderful photos!
Saturday 16 July 2022
Friday 15 July 2022
You'll need just a little Sitka Spruce for 56ft Pole Mast! 🙃 Photo courtesy of lefke Van Gogh.
You'll need just a little Sitka Spruce for 56ft Pole Mast! 🙃 Photo courtesy of lefke Van Gogh.
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News from Cygnet Wooden Boats July 15, 2022 at 05:47PM
You'll need just a little Sitka Spruce for 56ft Pole Mast! 🙃 Photo courtesy of lefke Van Gogh.
Friday 8 July 2022
Friday 1 July 2022
News from Cygnet Wooden Boats July 01, 2022 at 11:40AM
UIRA UPDATE NO 24. HULL SHEATHING, BIG BOLTS AND ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL RUDDER! It's been awhile since the last update so lots to catch up on! After what seemed to be endless timber plugs, splines and fairing of the hull we began the difficult task of applying a layer of dynal sheathing to the hull. The question is often asked why sheath a perfect wooden hull? Firstly the triple diagonal construction of TE UIRA is incredible strong and stable but the multiple layers of planking can be a complete nightmare if a leak develops with water tracking along the inner layers and appearing on the inside far from the external incursion. Secondly maintenance and its increasing cost. We are hopeful that TE UIRA will be extant for another 100 years and the coating will help decrease the cost of her maintenance now and in the future! As a racing boat UIRA may one day compete with her contemporaries in New Zealand that have also been restored this way. Keeping the water from the timbers keeps her lighter and faster on the water! After the sheathing we added a lick of paint so we can start the final fairing of the hull ready for sanding and painting. The next huge job has been drilling through metres of keel timber and lead to insert the new keel bolts. While it was tempting to use spiral drills for the lead with over a metre of material to drill through it was considered not worth the angst of the drill bit binding and breaking in the lead, so a more robust but slower type of drill bit was used! The drilling team of Andrew, Matt, Marshall, Jeremy and Taylor drilled through a combined total of 6 metres of lead ballast. A big thanks to our engineer Edd who made all the bolts, nuts, drills and counter bores to accomplish the task! With the ballast keel now bolted in place what a big beautiful boat needs is a big beautiful rudder and all the parts to attach it to the boat! Lindsay has been busy constructing said rudder from slabs of glorious New Zealand Kauri and making patterns for the pintles and gudgeons to attach the rudder that now have been cast in gun metal bronze ready for fitting! Lastly her new feathering propeller has arrived so we can prepare the rudder aperture to accommodate the new prop. Enough said for now, I'll let the pictures tell the rest of the story! Enjoy!
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