New BCC Bobstay Chainplate Design
Finally got the bobstay chainplates design completed last night. Rosie and I were up until 2am getting this just right. Massive thanks to Rosie for his help with all the measuring and for drawing this out in Vector Works. I dropped the plans off at Ramsay Welding & Fabrication this morning. Here’s what I ended up doing, I think it will be gorgeous, very traditional looking and rather sensible. But, damn, it took a long time to get here; worrying, measuring, re-measuring, going back and forth between casting and machining, bronze and Stainless… hemming and hawwing… rather like Dashey Noyes, from Lincoln Colcord’s story Carrying Sail.
Seale, I AM the chief engineer!
What you say!
The indecision wasn’t Dashy’s; it was Dashy speaking about Cap’n Tripp!