Here at Team Recovery, we get ourselves into a bunch of odd things. Lately, we have been helping a local artist build a sign. It is for a new candy store and is basically a huge lollipop. We made a quick temporary mold and laid up two halves. The halves are being readied for paint and to be attached to the stick, a length of PVC pipe. It will hopefully be done the end of the week.
On the i550 front, we have saved our pitifully looking sprit. It is a cedar cored, tapered tipped pole that had a bad case of the wrinkles. We made a hand operated "lathe" and sanded the wrinkles out with a belt sander. Then an additional layer of carbon to replace any that was sanded off and it finally is beginning to look like it is supposed to. As we elected to leave the cedar core in place, the sprit weights more than the all carbon purchased ones. Ours comes in at about 6 1/2 pounds.
We also had to tear into the bow and fix an issue we noticed. Somehow we managed to allow the bow to get twisted just a bit. I had been looking at it and going back and forth on whether it was OK or not, but we then leveled the boat on it's chines and got the tape and levels out. Yep, it wasn't exactly plumb so we cut it all apart and started over. The twist started between bulkhead 53.5 and 18. We cut 18 out and confirmed 53.5 was OK. The good part of this was that we got to see just how well things get bonded together, the bad was having to do it at all.
Now, the bow is plumb and we finished up the stem fitting. We will be putting the mast up again soon and confirming the adjustable forestay gear and that we can achieve the mast control we are hoping for. It will also be a good time to check the fit on the sails.
The cabin top plug is also almost ready as well.
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