Most of the tricky bits are done.  If you don't get the keel/frame joints right,
then the boat could be structurally compromised, and there are so many different
things happening that you have to stay on your toes.  Remember there are 10(+)
tons of lead hanging off the bottom of the keel.   Planking and decking are
pretty straightforward without a lot of complexity.  My guess is there will be a
pretty fancy interior - lots of cabinetry.  One shot in the video showed the
fellow fairing the inside surfaces of the frames  (so that any palnking that is
installed in there will have good seating) and you could see he was next to a
big varnished Mahogany (?) beam called a carlin.  It bolts to the frames and the
deck beams bolt to it, so it is an important joint, and they thought ahead
enough to varnish it before it went in the boat to make it easier.  If they
varnished the carlin, there should be some pretty cool stuff inside.  We have 40
year old interior varnish in some paces that still looks fine as it gets no sun
and no water on it.

When he was working on the bronze floors, my guess was $5-800 each without his
labor, and at the end he said the bronze alone was $11K and there are 19 frames,
and the labor and equipment had to be another $11K, so over $1,000 each.  This
is a yacht technique, and only the best yachts had them.  I helped a friend
working on rebuilding the very first Concrodia Yawl which was very narrow and 44
feet, so the floors were smaller and much more delicate than these and he just
cut them out of pine and screwed them together and bunged the holes.  His did
not need the stretcher across the top.

I think he is 40% done, depending on how fancy the interior gets, maybe a little
more.  The part he is done with includes a lot of demo and decisions.  The rig
will be fun to watch go together.

Cool story about the Concordia yawl.  It was mahogany planking over oak frames,
built in 1939? so in 1979 it was about 40 years old, but still in very nice
shape.  My friend wanted to strip the hull and varnish it, so he called
Concordai to find out what he could about the hull.  They gave him the number of
the foreman who was on the job, long since retired.  The guy told him that it
was specified as paint grade and the second plank down on the port side was very
pale, so he wouldn't recommend varnish. My friend stripped a section of that
plank, and sure enough it was that yellow/grey that mahagany can be.

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Ed Minch