C-025 Bisquit

[ebb]

Well, you have given it much thought, and it sounds personal...
(My daughter chose her mother's middle name Gail, as her writer nom-de-plume.)

Nowadays bisquit seems more to be a name for a color, than historical navy food.
Maybe a more formal name for Bisquit will reveal itself. Bisqui't is rather plain!

But the name is fun, as it brings to mind the word CRACKER and Cracker Jack, both
with a number of meanings. (I have a particular dislike for obvious puns in boat names.)
PRETZEL, SALTINE both salty.. but one comes with mustard.
CRULLER, ECLAIR and MUFFIN. SCONE and of course CUPCAKE

Hoeny Bisquit, Tea and CRUMPETs, which brings to mind TRUMPETS...when you splash.
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You feel like a pretzel after a day working below.
cracker's what's your head been up to.
cruller is SO bad.
but eclair has a nice sound and met with a rumble in the belly
scone is too starbucks, and there was boat named scone dove.
cupcake is too obvious and common. Brass Cupcake is a great novel.
I can see how bisquit isn't going to make it....
I'll be quiet now.

[Bisquit]

Bisquit has been moved from the corner of the yard where we store forgotten boats - The Island of Misfit Toys. She is in a storage shed that will be her new home until she is ready for paint. I set up some staging and she is ready for the heavy work. I got her pressure washed inside and out so working on her will be bearable. I still have a few hardware items to remove (stemhead fitting, bow chocks deadlights and outboard jib tracks) - everything else has been removed.

[Commander 147]

And the fun begins! I remember very well what doing that kind of work is like. Having an inside place to work sure makes the job a lot more tolerable.

[Bisquit]

I made a couple of deck drawings so I can sketch out some ideas for deck layouts. They are not exact but close enough for government work.

[Commander 147]

Now take the drawings and go visit your sail maker. I wish I had spent more time talking to my sail maker before deciding on a layout plan. They (sail makers) really are a valuable resource if we use them correctly.

[Commander 147]

Hey, I just noticed the beer bottles sitting on the table by the hatch covers. Speaking from personal experience you will need a lot more of those before you finish this project! :-)

[Bisquit]

Many more beers will be sacrificed before this is over. I was going to have a sail maker tell me where the sails need to trim to. I am trying to work out a floating lead arrangement but I have not figured out how to make the inhauler work. Lots of time to work through those details.

[Bisquit]

It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve posted an update on my progress. Spring is a really busy time at the boatyard. Add to that a trip to see my son’s college graduation ceremony and a trip to the west coast to set up a boat for the Transpac and something had to give. Rather than that be progress on Bisquit, I decided to postpone updates. Right now I have removed all of the bad core from the deck and prepped the inner skin for new core.




I left ribbons of deck in place for a couple of reasons. They will allow for smaller, more manageable lay ups and core replacement and they will provide reference points for the deck shape when I fair the new outer skin.



The bow is re-cored. I put 3/8” G10 sheet at the bow and at the stanchions, deck fill and dorade vent to stiffen the deck and prevent water ingress in the future. I backfilled the areas where the inner and outer skins taper and meet with west system epoxy thickened with a combination of high and low density filler. I will put G10 under all the stanchions, chainplates and cleat locations aft. After it is all re-cored I will taper the deck to meet the core allow for a smooth transition on the layup.

[Bisquit]

Meanwhile back at the ranch have been working on the exterior woodwork. It was in pretty rough shape. I removed and disassembled it all then I ran whatever I could through a planer. I had to rebuild the main hatch, the winch pads, and the cockpit combing wings. I have 2 sealer layers and 3 build layers on most of the exterior wood now and it is starting to look like it belongs on a boat. I am using Epifanes Gloss varnish thinned 50% for the seal coats and 10% for the build coats. I plan to do a three more build coats then switch to the rubbed effect for the next 4 coats. After it is reassembled and installed on the boat I will probably have to do at least one touch up coat.

[Bisquit]

Here is what the wood looked like when it was removed.