Friday, 22 March 2024

Roving

White Wings is getting some of her planking re-roved; that is copper boat nails are hammer from the outside through over lapping planks and timmers (ribs) and small copper roves (cupped disks) are then places on the inside of the nail, the nail is cut back to leave a few millimetres exposed which is then peened over the rove to fix the nail in position. This task usually requires at least two people as one has to work on the outside of the boat and the other on the inside.

Working on White Wings
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