Real progress as we begin to cut the rabbet in the aft end. additionally we mill up floor timbers for 5 stations and then drill for the keel bolts.. Posted in dorothy, restoration, tony grove, wooden boats and tagged bending oak, bronze fastenings, bronze keel bolt, comealong, fairing, galvanic corrosion, iron sickness, keelson, oak frames, oldest sailboat in canada, restoring a wooden boat, restoring dorothy, restoring old sailboat, the grove woodworking school, wooden boats, working with. Think hard, and then bore two bolt holes, one at each end of the casting by way of core holes, through the wood keel, as shown in figure 4-3. if the casting was cored with 1-inch pipe, it's likely that your vs-inch auger is the tool to use, unless you've done a painful lot of reaming..
Pine log is sided to maximum width of the ballast keel (and then some). station lines and profile of the ballast keel are laid out along one side. perimeter is cut straight through, square with the flattened face. top of ballast keel is laid out and faired through with half-breadths taken from the body plan.. On a wooden boat, bonding is an invitation to trouble. bronze fastenings. whether on a wooden or fiberglass boat, the keel bolts must always be of a galvanically equal or more noble metal than the ballast they hold in place.. Provided that the bolts are not unduly "necked" due to wastage in the wood keel, i have always found that they will come out of the iron keel if walloped hard enough. almost no wastage or corrosion occurs where the bolt passes through the iron keel..