After constructing the forward mast step platform last week, this week is all about the forward mast step itself. It's in and looking good!

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we see it all in black and white

and painted all so recently

i sit and wonder what we seem to know

how we sure

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is

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i'm tony we're building a cruising

sailboat

and this week um the progress has been

all about the the forward mast step

on the junk rig um in case you're not

sure

uh a jump ring the master free standing

that means they don't have any of those

those wires the shrouds and the stays

that hold the mast up

the master held up purely from from two

places

one where it passes through the deck

it's called the partners

and the other one down the bottom of the

mask the mask comes through the deck

and sits on the keel and down at the

bottom of the masters i think with the

the mast step okay so it's located in

the mast step

it goes up through the partners and that

holds it up just stands up from there

and obviously the master has to be solid

enough and strong enough to

hold the force of the soils

this is the the main mass this boat's a

schooner which means that the main mast

here in the middle of the boat

is taller than the forward mast it's got

two masts

um this is the main mast as i said and

the mast step here

isn't in place yet but it will be very

easy because

when i framed the boat i put

that framework in that the mast that put

fit in so it just needs some solid

douglas fur

to make the square for the master very

simple

um but the forward one is a lot harder

and uh if you imagine the forward one

you know the boat comes

to a point at the bow end it's also got

the knee that supports the

stem to the bottom of the boat that

comes down an angle there

and you have to make a solid platform

on which you can build the mast step and

you'll probably remember that that's

what i did last week i made the platform

and this week's been all about making

the actual step that the square

the heel of the mast sits down into

and uh as i say given the shaping is

it's a much more complicated

process than this main last step

uh

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good

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how

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ready

wow

something like that

look at that that is beautiful

yeah here it is um in here and it's

built up of multiple layers of half inch

ply

with the square cut out in them and i've

epoxied them to that

to that base that i made last week and

put a number of

bronze screws through so i think i put

two layers down and then three bronze

screws through that

another three layers and then four run

screws through

all of those seven button screws pass

through into the base

then i put the rest of the layers on and

another four bronze screws through there

but they

only screw it together they don't pass

through the whole

stack but there it is

and there's the dummy mast in place the

angle is approximately right

and i'm very pleased gonna drain the

hole down the bottom here

in case any any moisture falls again it

goes down in there

drains through the bottom just needs

some paint really now

it's all done please

that's it for this week thanks for

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and uh we'll be back next week i imagine

getting on with the partners the fitting

for the partners got

various materials in to be getting on

with i've got the lining

that's going between the frames and the

forecast

quite a bit to be getting on with and uh

we'll see what we get done

see you later bye

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