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thanks for the photo's wonderfull to see,and all the hard work gone into the restoration

it was nice to see the mast on this morning

Yes she is looking good slim . Not exactly the weather for it thought
Will post more pics over the weekend.

We started work preparing the mast, boom, and gaff last summer, they are now complete.

Fitting the SADDLE.






Root of the MAST



Marking out where the HOUNDS go




Cutting them in with a DRAW KNIFE

Fitting HOUNDS






lifting points and HOUNDS fitted




BOLSTER fitted to HOUNDS




Nearly there, just the TRUCK to be fitted



TRUCK fitted

Putting up the MAST


ROSPAUL in the well (Black coat)




Nearly there.




There she is, up. (Nothing like a good erection )




PAUL LAKE (Boat builder) and myself working out the length of the rigging.

Myself fitting some of the RIGGING









Looking good

VICTOR PRATT (Master Boatbuilder) laying out the shape of the JAWS




Shaping the GAFF and the BOOM










Fitting the JAWS

BOOM Jaws




GAFF jaws the gaff jaws have a slide in them





REEFING POINTS on BOOM



BOOM being fitted + Captain Paul

Really getting there now.







The young fella who is paintings father used to crew this boat.






Not much more to do now.

Seeing this from start to finish, I think "Wow!" is a vast understatement.

Teddy

must come and see it,it looks great

Thanks Ted, and Bill. I know LAKEYMATE when he looks in really appreciate the comments.
A TILLER and RUDDER will be made and fitted soon, and rigging will be sorted out.
Port and Starboard lights will be fitted also. Money is a bit tight, so if any kindly
benefactors would like to help that would be great.

We saw it in Sept. cant beleave you guys got all that work done so fast must have been hours of work, She is truely is beautiful Thanks for all the pictures EW.

Bravo! To all three of you for taking on such an awesome, but handsomely rewarding task. Your efforts are providing an educational and interesting pictorial of the step by step progress of the Restoration of the Smack. Will it take a long, long, time?
Regards.....RMP
Peace