Carling Installation

The deck beams were cut away, after marking them carefully, and the carling bent into place. Doing this was quite a task as the carling is a substantial member and took lots of effort to bend. Working out the shape of the top of the carlings was also pretty tricky and required a temporary carling made of some thin MDF sheet to be put in place and the top edge marked on it. Once we had the shape the rest was much easier.

Here they are after being installed.

Here is the ski pole in place. Just had to have one as we hope to be able to kneeboard with this boat. The pole is made up from six pieces of Tas Oak laminated together to form a square section (well nearly square) and then turned down to a nice shape. It is then glued and screwed to the transom and glassed in as well. If this pulls out it will take the back of the boat with it!

The pole looks to be very high but it will only poke out about 100mm above the top of the engine cover.