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| The piece of lumber that you see along the boat is an engineered plywood beam that I used as a flat surface to clamp the 3 laminations of the mast to during glue up. The mast is made of sitca spruce. |
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| Here are the center lamination is being glued to one of the outside laminations. The string down the center was used to assure lateral straightness. I also made the mast partially hollow by routing out a portion of the center lamination. Sorry, I don't have a picture of the hollow area. |
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| I pre-cut reliefs in the laminations to insert the oak base pin into. |
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| The top of the mast is shown marked out here. I used a hand plane to shape the mast down to 8 sides. |
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| The mast has been shaped to 8 sides and I have started to use wood rasps to shape the top area. |
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| Base of mast. |
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| The mast has now been shaped to 16 sides. |
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| Here are the planes that I used to shape the mast through to 32 sides. I was surprised how fast the shaping went. |
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| This is the sanding tool that I made to sand the mast from 32 sides to round. |
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| The duct tape around the edges of the sandpaper are to keep it from ripping out during use. |
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| Here is the finished mast top with side stays and halyards installed. |
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| The jib halyard runs through the brass thimble. |
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| Detail of side shroud. |
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| Top of mast as it sits when rigged. |
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| These are the boom and yard pieces. They are made from solid sitca spruce. One is shaped to 8 sides, the other to 16. |
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| Another view of the boom and yard. |
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| I used my Stanley #140 block plane to take the 16 sides down to 32. Then I used the sanding tool as used on the mast. |
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| The boom as it is fully rigged. |
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| Boom jaws and downhaul. |
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| Main sheet cam cleat mounted on aft centerboard trunk. |
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| Boom fully rigged. |
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| Good shots of the adjustable side shrouds. |
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