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Here are the padeyes (or eyestraps) that will attach the blocks to the boom: https://www.community.boatbuildercentral.com/gallery/albums/userpics/91275/446_Three_More_Eyestraps.JPG The third one will anchor down a "leash" for the daggerboard to keep it in the vicinity of the boat after a c...

Finished the main sheet blocks today. Cross-drilling an axle for cotter pins that will hold it in place: https://www.community.boatbuildercentral.com/gallery/albums/userpics/91275/442_Drilling_Axle_for_Cotter_Pin.JPG All the bits and pieces, sitting on my shop drawing of the shell. The shell is shee...

Thanks, all.

It's good to be away from distractions and back at boat-building!

My next project was turning the sheaves (pulleys) for the halyard and mainsheet. The halyard sheeve will be embedded in the mast, up top, so it's diameter is the same as the thickness of the mast. Rounding the blank: https://www.community.boatbuildercentral.com/gallery/albums/userpics/91275/430_Roun...

Dougster wrote: ↑Sat Nov 20, 2021 9:53 am The best answer is more.

This. Here's adding a sheer clamp to one side of an MF14. The only clamps I didn't use were my pipe clamps:

I've finished shaping and sanding the spars. They taper at the leach (outer) end, just like the original wooden Sunfish spars. https://www.community.boatbuildercentral.com/gallery/albums/userpics/91275/418_Sanding_finished.JPG The ends will be used to hold 'em while they get varnished. I'll cut and ...

Boom!

https://www.community.boatbuildercentral.com/gallery/albums/userpics/91275/Octagon.JPG Octagon https://www.community.boatbuildercentral.com/gallery/albums/userpics/91275/Hexadecagon.JPG 16 Sides https://www.community.boatbuildercentral.com/gallery/albums/userpics/91275/Triacontadigon.JPG 32 Sides

Making the spars is the same drill as the mast: knock off the corners, then knock off the corners again and again. Here's the first corner planed off. https://www.community.boatbuildercentral.com/gallery/albums/userpics/91275/407_First_corner_planed.JPG I got about two feet into it when I had one of...

The boom and gaff will be 1.5-inch diameter Sitka Spruce by 13 feet 8 inches long, the same dimensions as a Sunfish rig. My supplier only had 8-foot lengths, but was kind enough to pre-cut scarf joints for me. https://www.community.boatbuildercentral.com/gallery/albums/userpics/91275/402_Boom_and_ga...