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Hi Tim,
Thank you, I think I will go for routing out a 'slot' the width between the drain holes and letting in a strip. As I will be doing something on the inside epoxy wise I am not over concerned on strength, more looks. I may well go for timber to match the styling line on the gunwhales. I guess I will never match the mahogany exactly so I may as well make it a feature !
The easy way out of a capping piece is out due to the length issue and I am not feeling up to surgery  ( I want her back on the water)
Regards

Scraping at last finished, with some 5 Kg of varnish and other Yuk removed.
Starting to look quite OK as the overall picture might show.
However as the inner and outer view of the transom show all is not well there.
Firstly the old fitting screw holes are black and ugly, but as the inner view shows there is a crack from the corner of the port flap hole across. I guess epoxy and microbaloons will fill this but what about the aesthetics ?  Should I let in a new chunk of timber to replace the center section ?
Any ideas please ?

Wow !
You set the refurb bar very high !

Thanks for that, at the moment epoxy seems a distant dream !
Another 10 hors scraping and more inner hull is revealed - total mass of varnish bits removed so far - an unbelievable 4.9 Kg, that is two full large bin bags ! I just hope this will be worth it .
Very pleased to see some nice mahogany being revealed.
 

[Refurbishment Starts.]

Refurbishment Starts.
A good bit later than planned but frankly Lesley would have beaten me to a pulp if I hadnt done the garden etc etc first.
Work with the hot air gun has produced startling results, the timber is even better than I thought and I am hopefull of a good cosmetic result.
The area stripped in the photo has produced a whopping 1.9Kg of varnish scrapings !  Thats going to help.
Plan is to strip inside bare and epoxy with SP 203, adding some fillets around the Center case, transom and knees to stiffen her up a bit.  Then varnish with an epoxy compatible material.
A couple of questions though :-
1) What about the areas under the gunwhales on the inside - I cant get my hands in to strip and I dont feel inclined to 'Un-deck' her. Will this be OK just to run the epoxy up to overlap; or does someone have a cunning solution ?
2) With regard to stiffening fillets, could someone please advise me what kind of dimensions / radii I should be looking at?

Nice one Tony!

I recognise that blue paint !!

You did get my vote !

Hi Tony,
Thanks - but banned anyhow. Lesley point Blank refuses to enter the County - she served a lot in the area when in the RAF  and made it clear it will be a cold day in hell before she will go near. Year after maybe ?
Grimalkin nearly became a 67 planker on sunday as the Avon suddenly leaped out of its banks and into the dinghy compound !  Just about got her out in time, now safely in the garage drying out. Will post pictures if I can get them of my Blackberry

I have found that the galvanised steel wire covered with a plastic coating available at B&Q , linked into a figure of 8 with a couple of their U Bolts is more than adequte and very cost effective. Also it doesnt spike your fingers or fray, and is easy to wipe clean.
Try and adjust the length so it doesnt allow the hitch to touch the floor when 'un hitched' or the sudden digging in of the coupling as it hits tarmac will be most unpleasant - ask me how I know !

Probably a daft question - but be gentle with me as a newbie.
Is 2760 old enough to be a 'Vintage' ?? or would I have to compete with all the hot shots and be anhialated ??
If not Vintage, is there anything to give 'middle aged' a fighting chance ?
 

Well you would certainly get my vote !
 
Outstanding;D

Wow Tim That is useful.
You have done exactly what I want to and the result looks superb.
Approximately how many man hours did that take please so I can get my head around the job !
( If you have nothing to do over Christmas maybe you could show me how it was done )

Joking apart,
in the mid 70's we knew some quite competitive Fireball sailors who had quite a nice Chipendale timber boat and they never bothered to paint or varnish her until she had bare wood patches. In 1977 or 78 I remember with shock and amazement seeing them srape the last vestiges of varnish and paint off her then re paint and varnish her on the beach at Saundersfoot !:o
In those days of course there was sun in the summer and I guess she dried quickly but they did keep touching her and literally as soon as the paint was dry she was back in the water.   Happy days.

Thaks for that,
It will be the hot air gun as it also warms up the garage and dries the wood!
I think I will go for epoxy, even with the additional effort as I have forund it a boon on my old Mirror for stiffening up joints etc.  I do want to ensure all the knees etc are sound as we intend to give her some stick next year !
Also if I am going to that effort I think epoxy with 2 pack over the top stand a a chance of lasting longer. My only problem will be finding a chandelry in the Midlands thats still in buisness to sell me the materials ??)