Wednesday, 14 December 2011

Around the Bend

Restoration work on the SCOW has made some good progress, stripped right back to the bare hull it was time to bend in some stringers. A home made steam box was constructed using a camping stove, a pressure cooker borrowed from the kitchen and a length of well insulated PVC pipe. The 1.5” x 2” stringers were given around an hour by which time they were easily coaxed with both bend and twist to fit snugly in place.



With apologies to any professional boat builders, things were held in place with “dry wall” screws while things dried out and then were glassed onto the hull with epoxy and glass tape. The objective is to get this 60 year old GRP SCOW sailing and this approach was fast, forgiving, will be maintenance free and who knows might keep her going for another 60 years.
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5 comments:

  1. doryman14 December 2011 at 21:09

    Ohhh, the dreaded Bosun's Locker! No doubt full of rigging and other (nefarious?) tools of the trade.
    For your readers - ABS pipe (black drain pipe) is more resilient against heat than PVC, which eventually takes bends of it's own.

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  2. Bursledon Blogger15 December 2011 at 06:32

    Wow that was well spotted, indeed an aladdin's cave of rigging, warps, fenders, outboards and other accumulated nautical junk that might just be useful one day, probably...

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