Setting up the sprits and adding hardware to the masts:
Then taking her outside to raise the sails for the first time (Sail #1!) and figure out sheeting. Two phone calls to Graham about this - do the sheets go to the mizzen, to the cabin top, or to the thwart? Wanting to have double-ended sheets and deciding that the cabin top is too fat forward, I decided on the thwart that holds the mast step. The mizzen sheets must come through blocks on the transom since that's as far aft as I can get.
Then to the lake to float her and approximate the waterline:
Now I'm off to work at camp for 5 weeks, but I may get home this weekend to finish enough to take her for a sail!
Gorgeous work, Doug! I like the name; lived in those books myself as a lad, and named my Sunfish after Sparrowhawk's boat. A question about your cabin: how far is it from the berth flats to ceiling (say, at it's highest point away from the companion)? I built a mark I, (hull #65) then added a cabin later. Despite my best efforts, I don't have sitting headroom, but I think my cabin is taller than yours.
ReplyDeleteThere is quite a step down into the cabin. The water ballast and an air tank are under the cabin sole. I am using an ice chest for the step. Headroom by the cabin opening is over six feet, but it diminishes as you move toward the bow. There is over six and a half feet of length on the berths since they extend under the cockpit seats.
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