Dave Foster was a teacher and mentor for me and I suspect countless others as well. I learned he died back in December. I found a few photos of him I took when I was at the Apprenticeshop in the mid '70's.
Here are some pictures of installing in-wales and rub rails, The in-wale is riveted to the shear plank with spacer blocks and the rub rails were screwed on afterwards. . . .
After lots of scrapping and sanding we finally got the Shearwater to the point that we could roll her over. Now after cleaning out the interior and adding fiberglass strips to the bottom garboard seam I am starting to work on interior components. It is wonderful to have an upright boat to work wit . . .
We got the shear plank on, coated the bottom and garboard planks with fiber glass, attached the outer stem pieces and now we are doing a final clean up and coating with epoxy in preparation for rolling the boat over. . . .
