Friday, September 21, 2007

Port Side





Glassing over a teak insert that raises the traveller out on top of the cockpit.



The Bow - going to Starboard








Cabin Top (Part 2)










Rebuilding the cabin top






Deck Hardware Removed






Cutting out the Rotten Core from the Transom







The Boat was purchased in July 2007. She was prevouisly named Dulcinea.

The name Dulcinea: Seeking after the traditions of the knights-errant of old, Don Quixote finds a true love whom he calls Dulcinea. She is a simple peasant in his home town, but Quixote imagines her to be the most beautiful of all women. At times, Quixote goes into detail about her appearance, though he freely admits that he has never seen her.Don Quixote describes her appearance in the following terms: "… her name is Dulcinea, her country El Toboso, a village of La Mancha, her rank must be at least that of a princess, since she is my queen and lady, and her beauty superhuman, since all the impossible and fanciful attributes of beauty which the poets apply to their ladies are verified in her; for her hairs are gold, her forehead Elysian fields, her eyebrows rainbows, her eyes suns, her cheeks roses, her lips coral, her teeth pearls, her neck alabaster, her bosom marble, her hands ivory, her fairness snow, and what modesty conceals from sight such, I think and imagine, as rational reflection can only extol, not compare."



I have since decided to rename her "Rattle and Hum", named after a great album from a great band U2.
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