11. Spars

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.

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.

I pre-cut reliefs in the laminations to insert the oak base pin into.

The top of the mast is shown marked out here.  I used a hand plane to shape the mast down to 8 sides.

The mast has been shaped to 8 sides and I have started to use wood rasps to shape the top area.

Base of mast.

The mast has now been shaped to 16 sides.

Here are the planes that I used to shape the mast through to 32 sides.  I was surprised how fast the shaping went.

This is the sanding tool that I made to sand the mast from 32 sides to round. 

The duct tape around the edges of the sandpaper are to keep it from ripping out during use.

Here is the finished mast top with side stays and halyards installed.

The jib halyard runs through the brass thimble.

Detail of side shroud.

Top of mast as it sits when rigged.

These are the boom and yard pieces.  They are made from solid sitca spruce.  One is shaped to 8 sides, the other to 16.

Another view of the boom and yard.

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.

The boom as it is fully rigged.

Boom jaws and downhaul.

Main sheet cam cleat mounted on aft centerboard trunk.

Boom fully rigged.

Good shots of the adjustable side shrouds.