I have for sale several boats
Columbia 8.3 $4000 obo
12′ one design sail trainer $1000
12′ Shell back dingyn c/w sailing rig $1200
Call me or email me for info
You can see pics of these in other posts
If you want to buy the West INdies 36 I would talk about that too.
eric@renforth.net
506 643-0799
I have for sale a Columbia 8.3 She will be undergoing some refitt this winter. This will include repairs to the stern rail, a new head liner and fairing some ports of the hull that were repaired after a grounding last summer. She has a new Bluesea electrical panel, dodger,and is very very spacious. Decks have been recently painted and a new companionway door built. I will let her go cheep before I do the refit. In the spring this boat will be a precious commodity and I am sure will sell fast.
Current suggested value $4000
Got the drawings out again. What is next?
Beginning to shape the transom to receive the planks
The process of fairing the molds begins
Renforth Boatworks is able to take on just about any kind of job that involves Boats. If we can’t do it then we will tell you so and refer you on to someone who can.
Scuba diving
Hull repair
Modifications
Electrical
Navigation and communications Systems
Radar trouble shooting
Installations of various things
New Construction of small boats and dinghys
Restorations
If it has to do with a boat, we will take a look and tackle it!
White oak and mahogany will form a platform supported by SS brackets. Note the special bevel tool to take a bevel measurment in 3 axis
Swim platform glued up, waiting for me to get back from Florida
Molds in place with stem and transom
Landing the keelson on the stem
Used a heat gun to get the keelson to bend smoothly over the last two feet.
Keelson let into transom
Keelson faired to inner stem
Transom cut out of the laminated mahogany.
I am ready at any time to set up the molds but I am going to take some more time and make some of the other components so that when it comes time to set things up it will be a minimum of time. Knees, thwarts, oar lock bases, floor boards etc.
Steam box for bending the laminations for the 6 knees that are required. Cold bending resulted in a lot of broken pieces of oak. Thanks for the advice Greg Rossel
Laminations fresh out of the steam box, bent and cooling on the jig for the knees.
The 7 molds are now completed with all the required marks on them. The transom has been splined and glued up an ready to be planed flat. The inner and outer stem pieces are squared up and need the bevels roughed in. I tried to laminate the knees but even at 3/16 thickness they broke. I think I will go with sawn knees in oak or mahogany.
Frames complete
Jig for bending knees
Glued up transom ready for flattening
Glueing and clamping setup for transom
