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  • Keel Casting Keel Casting
    Scrap lead from a roof in Bristol is being melted down
  • Keel Casting Keel Casting
    Molten lead is poured into a wooden mold
  • Keel Casting Keel Casting
    The lead shrinks back from the mold as it cools...
  • Fitting Keel Keel Fitting
    The keel is jacked up into place ready to be drilled for the keel bolts
  • Grown Oak Floors Grown Oak Floors
    Floors are fitted. The bronze keel bolts will pass through these floors, the wood keel and the ballast keel
  • Beam Shelf Beam Shelf
    Larch beam shelves have been steamed into place. Here they meet at the stem
  • Carlins Carlins
    Here, one of the two carlins is steamed into shape prior to fitting
  • Hanging Knees Hanging Knees
    Hanging knees support the side decks
  • Deck Framing Deck Framing
    Deck framing is now complete
  • Mast Step Mast Step
    View of the mast step through the hole in the mast partners