A183 Bluster
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| CLASS | Atalanta |
| BUILT | November 1966 |
| HULL No. | 196 |
| Condition | Restoring |
| Location | Aberdeenshire |
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A183 Preparing to scarf new wood into the stringer where the rusted chain plate bolts passed through it.
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A183 Water had entered via the chain plate bolts and partially rotted the stringer behind the hull-deck join.
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A183 The rotten deck and hull laminates around the rubbing strake have now all been replaced.
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A183 These had rotted from the bottom and let water into the plywood bulkhead.
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A183 The new bulkhead glued and screwed in place. The forward board is in two parts.
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A183 The replacement piece for the bulkhead, the backing board, covering strip and part of the forward board.
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A183 The rotten parts of the aft bulkhead were cut away down to the level of the lower section.
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A183 The block continues under the stringer to provide more rigidity.
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A183 A solid block of Sapele inserted in the cockpit corner for stanchion mounting.
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A183 Looking forward.
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A183 Still plenty more to do on the starboard side!
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A183 The deck and hull laminates, apart from those covering the cockpit corner, back in place and awaiting fairing.
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A183 The laminates over the curved cockpit corner have been left off for the moment, awaiting some solid wood to be fitted to bolt the stanchion base to.
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A183 The first laminate layer back on the deck and hull.
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A183 The stringers meeting at the aft cabin bulkhead were both loose; the voids were filled with epoxy. The dowels are filling holes where a stanchion base had been bolted through.
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A183 The three deck laminates have been cut back and part of the first layer replaced.
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A183 The aft deck has come away from the cockpit side deck.
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A183 Where the aft deck shell meets the cockpit deck shell the joint had come apart.
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A183 Repairs to the hull and deck around the rubbing strake on the starboard quarter.
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A183 Port Side Repairs
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A183 A decent boat tent enables work to continue.
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A183 The hull laminations peeled back on the port quarter ready to be replaced.
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A183 Repairs to the bottom laminates under the rudder skeg and the slot in the keel ready for new wood to be scarfed in.
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A183 The upper rudder pintle on the transom was backed by an aluminium plate that had corroded and dissolved the wood behind it. A new piece of Sapelle was scarfed in.
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A183 The splits above the lower pintle position have been broken open and re-glued, and new wood inserted to replace missing sections. The skeg may be replaced completely.
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A183 Engine bearer supports removed, and also the boards sandwiching the lower part of the aft cabin bulkhead.
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A183 The keel stops removed, with the one remaining (partial) bolt.
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A183 Laminations of the keelbox plywood worn through close to the keel pivot bolt.
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A183 When removing the keel support steelwork layers of plywood also came off the keelboxes.
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A183 The lower, outboard corners of the backing plates on the aft side of the main bulkhead were corroded.
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A183 Out at last!
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A183 The backing plates in the keelboxes came out easily, fairly well rusted.
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A183 The bolts through the keelboxes have been removed, and a start made on the main bulkhead bolts.
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A183 Some corrosion where exposed to seawater.
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A183 Detail of stirrup corrosion, with no corrosion where stirrup was in contact with the keel.
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A183 Progressively more corrosion lower down the stirrup.
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A183 The remaining keel bolts and pressure plates were removed once the keels were out.
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A183 The keels were removed using the procedure in Technical Paper F
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A183 Having removed the trailer, Bluster was lowered again ready for keel removal.
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A183 To pull Bluster’s trailer out she had to be jacked up to 1.2 metres above the ground,
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A183 The keels and all the supporting steelwork were removed for inspection, repair and re-galvanizing.
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A183 Heavily corroded on the inside faces.
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A183 Some corrosion, but not too bad.
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A183 This shows the stainless steel plates attached to the rudder head stub tiller by the rather worn machine screw!
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A183 Showing where grub screws were drilled out.
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A183 Rusty engine bearers and thrust bearing removed
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A183 The engine has been partially stripped and painted.
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A183 The engine is now bolted to its cradle, but the cradle needed fizing to the wheels. It is also rather top-heavy.
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A183 The engine about to be lowered into its cradle for transport to a shed.
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A183 The engine having been moved outboard ready to lower.
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A183 The Yanmar 1GM10 free from its mounting.
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A183 Starting the repair of the sprung laminations on the port bow from the inside.
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A183 All four layers of laminate were sprung on the port bow just below the waterline; from an anchor swinging in a seaway?
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A183 Beginning to look like an Atalanta again! (The coachroof is not yet fixed in place.)
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A183 The deck back in place ready for fairing.
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A183 Prior to replacing the deck, one inch Sapelle planks were shaped and inserted as under-deck reinforcement for fittings such as cleats, fairleads and pulpit.
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A183 Laminations going back on to the hull over the repaired stringer.
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A183 New wood scarfed into the stem.
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A183 With the king plank back in place, the foredeck is ready for replacement.
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A183 Sections of the stringers on the starboard bow had also to be renewed.
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A183 The decision was taken to cut out and replace much of this section of deck rather than fill up all the holes.
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A183 After removing the false stem, the soft wood in the stem around the bolt holes was cut out ready for scarfing in new wood.
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A183 Section of soft wood cut out of the starboard bow with replacement scarfed in.
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A183 The stringers sections in the port bow replaced ready for the deck to be put back.
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A183 soft wood cut out of the port bow where the deck to hull joining stringer meets the thicker section at the bow.
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A183 More holes than a swiss cheese, but no rot.
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A183 There was also some rot under the stem head fitting and around all screw and bolt holes.
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A183 There was a lot of very soft wood in the false stem around the stem fitting and bolt holes.
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A183 Starting placing an additional lamination on the coachroof.
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A183 The foredeck laminations are now complete.
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A183 Water had been getting into the deck and causing the whole side to delaminate. Port side is OK.
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A183 These were in poor shape, so I have inserted a solid bit of wood under the deck edges.
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A183 A replacement outer lamination for the forehatch opening, cut and ready to glue in place
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A183 Making a template for the lowest lamination on the starboard side deck.
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A183 Replacement of the frame end on the main bulkhead and the addition of an additional deck stringer forward of this.
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A183 Port side deck now repaired apart from top laminate. Starboard side deck reinforcement in place and laminations beginning to go back.
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A183 Main bulkhead.
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A183 New frame.
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A183 Two additional stringers under the side deck.
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A183 The foredeck without paint or fittings
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A183 Rot and delamination at the base of the coachroof
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A183 The new flush decked Atalanta Bluster
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A183 Almost a dinghy with windows.
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A183 Bluster’s tent
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A183 Some bolts from the stem head fitting were badly waisted.
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A183 Stem head fitting removed: some rot underneath.
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A183 Chain plate bolts: mostly OK, the thin one was for the strut onto the deck and not load bearing while sailing.
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A183 Stripping off the rubbing strake and chain plates.
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A183 2005 Bluster on The Hamble
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A183 2005 Bluster sailing on the Solent
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A183 2005 Bluster on The Hamble
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A183 2005 Bluster on The Hamble
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A183 21-_DSC1218BlusterA183
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A183 A183 Bluster. Skipper Jane, and crew talk to Dinah (T10) in 2005.
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A183 A183 Bluster reaching in a force 5
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A183 A183 beating to windward in a Force 5
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A124, A183 2015 ECRandR A183 and A124
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A183 2015 ECRandR A183 1
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A183 2015 A183 on the Piles at West Mersea
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A124, A183 2015 A124 and A183 on the Piles at West Mersea
