The Launch

Launch day dawned cloudy but that made no difference to our spirits. Ben and John loaded Sea Nut into the bed of the pick-up and John made some support pieces so she would sit nicely while overturned on the float.

The christening was done with water bottles punctured on a nail driven into a piece of oak and clamped onto the bow transom.

Here she is waiting to see if she was seaworthy. Not a drop of water came in through any seam. So she was approved for sea trials.

Everyone got a chance to try her out and we were all amazed by how well she handled and how easy she was to row. Even the little girls had a great time and took several turns with her.

She finally was hauled up and put to rest on her new supports. Next weekend, hopefully Whitecap will follow Sea Nut into the New Meadows for the summer.

Painter ... Finished Pram

After touching up the paint yesterday, the only remaining job to do was splice on the painter, which John did today. Below you see the result of that effort.


Below you see the inside of the finished pram. She is ready for launch hopefully next weekend if it stops raining.

We will be sure and post photos of that event.

Seats and Name

Tonight we drilled the holes and fastened the seats onto the seat supports we had already fastened to the planks on the pram. It was really not a big deal just a matter of drilling the holes, countersinking them and screwing in the screws.
You do get kind of sick of screwing in screws, however.

After all that was done, or perhaps as a break from screwing in screws, we installed our purchased vinyl lettered name on the stern of the pram.
Now all that remains to be done is touching up the paint and splicing the painter on onto the hole in the fore keel. We also want to splice a loop in the shore end of the painter.