Masaki's Next Adventures In America: Day Two of the RESTORATION AND REPAIR COURSE.

Today I started working on the frames from yesterday. I took it to the planer "the Oliver" it’s an old-timer planer and it still work pretty well. I planed it down to 7/8 × 7/8. I also was trying to take off the burn parts from the table saw. When you cut white oak you pretty much always get burn mark on your wood. It’s really a pain to take it off. I got 90% of it with the Oliver but the some burn mark was still there. The planer was set for 7/8 so the burn marks that I missed I had it to use a scraper. It worked pretty well.

The frames need it chamfering. So I went to look in the Catboat to see the frames already made. The part they chamfered off was 1/16 or less so I did it like the other ones that was already built.

When I finish messing around (JK) with the frames Jeremy Nugent came along. It’s his first day so I asked him to help me with the Catboat. So now I got a friend to work with. This made it way easier and more fun. It was already fun but way more fun. We started working on wedges for the frames to fit. We had it to clap a batten to the keep to rap it around the boat in side to see where the frames go and where the wedges go. At first we were using cedar batten but it split so Jeremy gave me a white oak batten. They are really nice. It has more flexibility in it and it worked well.

Jeremy took over my place to build the supporter for the frames when we

bend it. Well he was working on that I went to put water in the steam box and started the fire. After that I went back to the shop and cut the frames to the length we need. We needed station (STA) 4, STA6, STA8 and STA10. Frames are two pieces on this boat so I had it to cut it with the dimension we measure from the boat. The STA4 was 36 inch, STA6-40 1/2 inch, STA8-43 1/4 inch and STA10-45 inch each side.

I had to go get ready my drill and the screws. While I was looking for toilet wax Jeremy mixed linseed oil and turpentine and brushed it on the frames. We both were ready to do the frames so I started putting the frames in the steam box by station. First the 4 and 6 and it went on to 10. I broke one station 6 on the port side so tomorrows project will be putting STA6 port side frame in the steam box and screw it on the boat and tack the nails in to STA4 to STA10.

And I think after the frames job is all finish Jeremy and I will go to the student library and look up search for centerboard construction. The Catboat has a cracks on the forwards side and aft side of the keel so we need to figure out how we going to fix it. It will be fun :)))) I'm looking forwards to work on the Boat tomorrow again. Loving it loving it. It’s an amazing class to be in.