| WOODEN BOAT |
KAREN AND ROB OPPENAUER DECIDED TO GET THIS BOAT REPAIRED
AND INTO THE WATER LOOKING SHARP TRYING TO MAINTAIN IT'S
ORIGINAL LOOK AS WELL AS TAKING SOME ARTISTIC LICENCE.
AND INTO THE WATER LOOKING SHARP TRYING TO MAINTAIN IT'S
ORIGINAL LOOK AS WELL AS TAKING SOME ARTISTIC LICENCE.
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| This is how they received the cedar strip. Notice the damaged woodwork. The steering wheal was black, rubbery, and so stiff it required great effort to move it, also the black would come off in your hands. |
| Same wheel is now thicker, white and has silver sparkles under the many coats of fibreglass resin. It also turns freely now. |
| The transom was relatively new but needed reinforcing to the hull. The seats were in good shape just needing a few parts refashioned, repaired and complete refinishing. |
| Inside the front of the bow the keel was rotting and repaired with epoxy. |
| This is what it looked like on the outside of the keel as it comes up the bow. |
| The top of the bow after removing anything rotting. |
| The top of the bow completed. |
| Working inside the bow was like being in a giant guitar. Plucking the steering cable sounded more like a base. |
| Karen Oppenauer posing with the boat before her and Rob Oppenauer started working on it. |
| Karen Oppenauer getting into her work. |
| A bit shabby but lots of potential! |
| Karen Oppenauer stripping the old finish of the transom. |
| Two wows, one in the slight curvature of the hull and one in the shine. |
| Drive way traffic jam. Oppenauer's wooden boat with other aluminium boats painted and repaired by the Oppenauer's |
| Rob Oppenauer got the lights to work before the maiden voyage. Not really maiden since it's about 50 years old. |
| The following pictures are of Rob and Karen Oppenauer with Till Schoeppe and Sarah-Jane Gordon-Jones at Charleston Lake 15 minutes from the Oppenauer’s. The wooden Boat although under powered took us all over this huge scenic lake that is filled with islands. Not a drop of water leaked through the hull. |
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