Season Greetings to the Court of Princess Sheila !
We are busy restoring the oldest Albert Strange yacht in commission.
The shipwrights team at Chantier de la Bascatic are recreating the stern, piece by piece. As Adrianna is restoring the keel, Rose is working on the stern post. My contribution, the fairing for the rudder tube, is more in line with my limited skills.
We want to avoid laminated wood as much as possible and we were missing some grown oak pieces. We found them at “Le Bois Idéal” in Mayenne. A big thank you to Mickael for making himself available and providing us with dry wood from trees that were planted under Colbert’s leadership, under Louis XIV, in the XVIIth century.
This is part 4 of the project.
Cheers from France !