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Better luck this time, thankfully

Ok, it has a name,  O’Hara.   If it sounds like a famous movie character then you are spot on. The colour of the hull when painted it inspires it along with the period of the boat and that famous Southern Girl. After a few weeks of getting the project...

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Here we go again

Rather disappointing but no choice but to start all over. So, five days later it is back to where  I left off and everything has measured up nicely. Different ply this time out other than being 2.7mm rather than 3mm it is much the same, although the finish is...

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Tern Schooner Upper hull prefit stage

Initial pre-assembly of the upper hull. The finbox construction took longer as the two bulkheads needed to be made of premium ply and thoroughly check for sizing and placement. It has gone together very nicely and fitted into the upper half hull as it should. I did the usual...

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Tern Schooner Pt 3 Strakes

  There is where it gets a bit  fluky, get it right first time or keep trying until I do.  While using the Annie hull as the default I need to add 10″/25cm to the centre section. Initially I’ll just add that to the centre of the pattern but...

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Tern Schooner Part 2 Plywood

Have to start somewhere, so here goes. I figure there will be much trial and some error along the way so have sourced some inexpensive 3 ply in which to experiment with during the hull build stage. I’ve done this before and built one boat using it but then...

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Project 2022 The Tern Schooner

Introduction Having built and sailed all of Gary’s models, plus some variation versions, I thought my building days were over.  (Wife’s amused laughter in background). But it seems not so.  🙄 I confess that I seem to like sails a lot and while the Flyer does a lot for...

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