{"id":174,"date":"2020-01-11T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/zenith\/?p=174"},"modified":"2020-03-03T11:12:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T11:12:08","slug":"restoration-resumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/zenith\/2020\/01\/11\/restoration-resumes\/","title":{"rendered":"Restoration resumes: ribs, ribs and more ribs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 2016 we moved house and I am now using the double garage as a workshop.  Even in the winter the internal temperature doesn&#8217;t fall below 16 degrees, it certainly makes a change to work in an environment that is warm, dry and rodent free! The past few years have been taken up with working on the house and garden, I also had the distraction of buying an old Phantom Dinghy before realising I don&#8217;t like Phantoms then buying a Harrier Plus (I&#8217;ll have to get around to documenting these on the other blog one day).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Zenith<\/em> was moved into the new workshop as soon as we moved in, in May 2016. In the last 3 years I did manage to do some work, such as sorting out the steering (I&#8217;ll write a separate post about this later), but most of the work on her  involved drinking mugs of tea and lots of thinking about deck construction, deck layout, sails control etc. Unfortunately <em>Zenith<\/em> made the perfect storage shelf for whatever house project I was working on and continuing her restoration never made it to the top of the list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last month, December 2019, I finally cleared the accumulated rubbish out of <em>Zenith<\/em>, found all my boat building tools and fired up the home made steamer. As I&#8217;ve mentioned in previous posts, Zenith has a large number of broken ribs. and several holes in the hull. In total she has 204 ribs, and to date I&#8217;ve found 95 broken ribs. I&#8217;d already replaced about 30 ribs in the stern and bow tanks, but the larger central, cockpit section needed the most work, there were 65 broken ribs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/zenith\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_7844-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-204\"\/><figcaption>The first thing is to get the steamer going again<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/zenith\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_7836-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-207\"\/><figcaption>The broken ribs are identified with tape on the gunwhale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/zenith\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_7838-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-206\"\/><figcaption>One rib out, ready to put a new one in<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/zenith\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_7850-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-205\"\/><figcaption>Looks like there&#8217;s a few in now, you can see the ends sticking up at the gunwhale<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/zenith\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_7941-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-203\"\/><figcaption>As time goes on the number of masking tape markers decreases.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Work resumed on the 14th December with 65 ribs identified as being broken, three weeks later and there are only 25 left to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll sort another post out later showing the detail of how the old ribs are removed and the technique for fitting the new ribs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2016 we moved house and I am now using the double garage as a workshop. 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